Modeling water supply and demand scenarios: the Godavari-Krishna inter-basin transfer, India

cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.subregionGodavari
cg.coverage.subregionKrishna
cg.coverage.subregionPolavaram Project
cg.coverage.subregionVijayawada
cg.coverage.subregionArthur Cotton Barrage
cg.coverage.subregionPrakasham Barrage
cg.creator.identifierLuna Bharati: 0000-0002-6218-3282
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2009.109en
cg.issn1366-7017en
cg.issn1996-9759en
cg.issueS1en
cg.journalWater Policyen
cg.volume11en
dc.contributor.authorBharati, Lunaen
dc.contributor.authorSmakhtin, Vladimir U.en
dc.contributor.authorAnand, B.K.en
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-13T14:47:57Zen
dc.date.available2014-06-13T14:47:57Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/40580
dc.titleModeling water supply and demand scenarios: the Godavari-Krishna inter-basin transfer, Indiaen
dcterms.abstractThe Government of India's National River-Linking Plan (NRLP) aims to alleviate emerging water scarcity problems by transferring water from well endowed to more deficient areas. This study evaluated the plausible future scenarios of water availability and use under conditions of various cropping patterns, and with the explicit inclusion (for the first time) of environmental water requirements for one of the links of the NRLP: from the Godavari River at Polavaram to the Krishna River at Vijayawada?the 'Polavaram Project'. The scenarios were evaluated using the WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) model. The study generates information for use in managing emerging trade-offs. The importance of explicit accounting for monthly variability in description of water supply and demand, in the monsoon-driven climate conditions of the region, is advocated. Such detailed scenario simulations and inclusion of previously unaccounted for factors/uses can help to create awareness of potential future problems, inform water management practices and suggest management alternatives. Results show that the proposed water storage and transfer will reduce water deficit within the project command area and significantly reduce dry slow river flow into the Lower Godavari Delta.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBharati, Luna; Smakhtin, Vladimir; Anand, B. K. 2009. Modeling water supply and demand scenarios: the Godavari?Krishna inter-basin transfer, India. Water Policy, 11(Supplement 1):140-153. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2009.109en
dcterms.extentpp. 140-153en
dcterms.issued2009-03-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherIWA Publishingen
dcterms.subjectwater scarcityen
dcterms.subjectwater demanden
dcterms.subjectirrigation wateren
dcterms.subjectriver basin managementen
dcterms.subjectwater transferen
dcterms.subjectreservoirsen
dcterms.subjectcanalsen
dcterms.subjecttanksen
dcterms.subjectgroundwateren
dcterms.subjectcrop managementen
dcterms.subjectriceen
dcterms.subjectmodelsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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