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Water Management Priorities in a Post-COVID World

In: Reimagining Prosperity

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  • P. S. Vijayshankar

    (Samaj Pragati Sahayog)

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This paper maintains that the growing crisis of water scarcity cannot be addressed from within the paradigm that created the problem. The extractive paradigm which prevails views high economic growth as the main goal of development to be achieved through the increasing extraction of natural resources. Approaches to water management that are based on this paradigm view water as a resource primarily meant for human consumption. In contrast, the paper proposes an ecosystem paradigm in which water is viewed as being embedded within the ecosystem as an essential part of it to be conserved and preserved for future generations. The author identifies five areas of action for water management in the post-COVID context: move away from water-intensive agriculture through crop diversification; sustainable and community-based groundwater management; protection of river systems and wetlands; ensuring water quality and drinking water security and the creation of strong legal frameworks for water governance.

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  • P. S. Vijayshankar, 2023. "Water Management Priorities in a Post-COVID World," Springer Books, in: Arash Fazli & Amitabh Kundu (ed.), Reimagining Prosperity, chapter 0, pages 189-199, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-7177-8_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7177-8_11
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