Dr. M. Arunachalam

Dr. M. Arunachalam
Environmental flows A methodology of calculation for India (Part 1)
Balancing the environmental flows with the growing population and rapid urbanisation is most essential to tackle the problem of water scarcity
Posted on 24 Aug, 2010 10:07 AM

 

IWMI Abstract

In order to maintain the ecological goods and services of rivers and other hydrological regimes like wetlands, lakes, etc., environmental flow allocations (eflows) are a necessity. At the same time, water demands in India are increasing and will keep increasing and solutions like waste water treatment, pollution control, correction of leakages and wastage of water, efficient irrigation systems, efficient agricultural systems, etc., will take considerable time to evolve, even with our best efforts. So what should we do in the meantime? There are vulnerable ecological systems on the verge of collapse..How do we respond to these challenges?

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