Water policy issues emerging out of national consultations under ICID's CPSP studies–India
- Book ID
- 102282392
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1531-0353
- DOI
- 10.1002/ird.201
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✦ Synopsis
The World Water Vision on Water for Food and Rural Development (WFFRD) for the year 2025, formulated through extensive consultations held in over 43 countries, was facilitated by International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) and a few other international organisations. The theme document presented at the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000 projected a substantial increase in the global water withdrawal, water storage and irrigation expansion for the predominant ''food sector'' (largely consumptive). A majority of these projections of large increases related to developing countries. However, the integrated overview Water Vision document scaled down these requirements in an attempt to consolidate conclusions and recommendations of various other themes. It also did not reflect quantification of water needs for the ''people sector'' (largely nonconsumptive) and the ''nature sector''.
In order to analyse the supply and demand issues of all three sectors, namely food, people and nature, in an integrated manner, ICID initiated a ''Strategy for Implementation of Sector Vision on Water for Food and Rural Development'' initiative in the year 2000. ICID also felt the need to mobilise strong international support for strategies and policies in the water sector to achieve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through independent water assessments. In line with this, ICID launched a project entitled ''Country Policy Support Programme (CPSP)'', with funding support from the government of The Netherlands.
In order to carry out detailed water assessment in India, a water-deficit basin on the west coast, namely the Sabarmati river basin, and a water-rich basin on the east coast, namely the Brahmani river basin, were chosen. The sample basin results were extrapolated to other basins in India. Policy interventions emerging from the studies in the context of integrated and sustainable water use were: