Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on authors; Cover and chapter photos; Foreword: the Ganga
  • between faith and reality; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; Part I Resources and uses; 1 Introduction; 2 Surface water resources; 3 Groundwater resources; 4 Climate change and the Ganges Basin; 5 Managing variability: floods and droughts; 6 Agriculture and water use: implications for sustainable intensification in the Ganges Basin; 7 Ganges hydropower: status and challenges.
  • 8 The water-energy-food nexus in the Ganges Basin: challenges and opportunities9 Ganges Water Machine: one solution to basin water problems?; Part II Environment; 10 Environmental flows: keeping the basin rivers alive; 11 Ecosystem services and conservation assessment of freshwater biodiversity; 12 Arsenic in the eastern Ganges Basin: extent and impact on food chain and human health; 13 Ganga water quality: dirty past, promising future?; Part III Governance and livelihoods; 14 Institutions and policies governing water resources management in the Ganges River Basin.
  • 15 Poverty, inequalities and vulnerability of the rural poor16 Gender, agricultural investment and productivity in an era of out-migration; 17 Can there be progress on transboundary water cooperation in the Ganga?; 18 Water challenges of the Ganges Basin: an agenda for accelerated reform; Index.