The Indus and the Ganges: river basins under extreme pressure.
2012
Sharma, Bharat R. | Amarasinghe, Upali A. | Shah, Tushaar | Bharati, Luna | Ambili, G.K. | Qureshi, Asad Sarwar | Singh, R. | Smakhtin, Vladimir U. | Xueliang Cai | Condappa, D. de | Mukherji, Aditi | Pant, Dhruba | Xenarios, Stefanos
The basins of the Indus and Ganges rivers cover 2.20 million km2 and are inhabited by more than a billion people. The region is under extreme pressures of population and poverty, unregulated utilization of the resources and low levels of productivity. The needs are: (1) development policies that are regionally differentiated to ensure resource sustainability and high productivity; (2) immediate development and implementation of policies for sound groundwater management and energy use; (3) improvement of the fragile food security and to broaden its base; and (4) policy changes to address land fragmentation and improved infrastructure. Meeting these needs will help to improve productivity, reduce rural poverty and improve overall human development.
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