Bharucha, Zareen Pervez and Smith, David and Pretty, Jules (2014) All Paths Lead to Rain: Explaining why Watershed Development in India Does Not Alleviate the Experience of Water Scarcity. The Journal of Development Studies, 50 (9). pp. 1209-1225. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.928699
Bharucha, Zareen Pervez and Smith, David and Pretty, Jules (2014) All Paths Lead to Rain: Explaining why Watershed Development in India Does Not Alleviate the Experience of Water Scarcity. The Journal of Development Studies, 50 (9). pp. 1209-1225. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.928699
Bharucha, Zareen Pervez and Smith, David and Pretty, Jules (2014) All Paths Lead to Rain: Explaining why Watershed Development in India Does Not Alleviate the Experience of Water Scarcity. The Journal of Development Studies, 50 (9). pp. 1209-1225. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.928699
Abstract
Watershed development (WSD) projects in India are key to meeting a range of human development goals in rain-fed agrarian landscapes. However, outcomes are often observed to be partial and short-lived. We offer a novel perspective on the reasons. Our analysis shows that the dominant ‘water narratives’ of WSD policy and practice and the lived experience of local people contribute to a naturalisation of water scarcity, resulting in widespread views that WSD is primarily a means for increasing irrigation water supply. We show how this over-simplifies the complex problem of agricultural water use and perversely contributes to a continuing experience of water scarcity rather than its resolution.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Life Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2014 09:52 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:41 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/10386 |