water security in periurban south asia
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Water security in periurban South Asia. Adapting to climate change and urbanization: the case of Gurgaon Vishal Narain Management Development Institute, Gurgaon June 18, 2013. Villages Budheda, Sadhraana, Sultanpur and Jhanjhrola Khera - 15 kms from the city - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Water security in periurban South Asia
Adapting to climate change and urbanization: the case of Gurgaon
Vishal Narain Management Development
Institute, GurgaonJune 18, 2013
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Villages Budheda, Sadhraana, Sultanpur and Jhanjhrola Khera - 15 kms from the city
Medium sized villages (population of 3600- 5200)
Socially heterogeneous and diversity of castes and land ownership patterns
Major land use changes – The Sultanpur National Park (1972)– Farm-houses of the urban elite (since the 1980s)– A water treatment plant to supply water to the city – Land acquired for the KMP expressway– SEZ for Reliance, a corporate giant
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Annual Rainfall 1957-2010
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Sadhrana VillageSadhrana VillageGradual loss of land for the Sultanpur National Park, farm-houses and reliance SEZ
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• Land was acquired to build a water treatment plant and canals to carry water to it
• Two rounds of land acquisition affecting the same people • Loss of tubewells located on those lands• Acquisition of private and grazing land for the WTP
– Switch from grazing to stall feeding– Increasing fodder collection tasks for women
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• Technological – Change in technologies for extracting water – Switch to sprinkler irrigation sets: the context of adaptation
• Institutional – Access water markets /tankers– Mobilizing social capital: collective tubewells among the Pundit community – Take water from friends/relatives: eroding social capital in a periurban context
increases vulnerability
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• 2010 a year of high rainfall: rainfall flooding in the fields • Farmers lost monsoon crop and sowing season for wheat • Most vulnerable
– Low lying fields, geographically concentrated, clayey soils with no alternative lands or assets in the city to serve as cushion
– Tenants more vulnerable than landlords; pay cash before seeing the harvest – Some clans more vulnerable– Psychological stress of crop failure often borne by women
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• Organized a series of dialogues between water users and the PHED (water providing agency) in Sultanpur and Jhanjhrola Khera villages – Steered away from social engineering – Built community capacity to improve responsiveness of PHED
• replace cement pipes by DI pipes • secure water connection for school and attend to faults (in record time)• building capacity to negotiate with service providers can build community
resilience in the face of climate change : changing the ”hydro-culture”
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