Nitin Bassi

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the wetland wealth of India in terms of their geographic distribution and extent, ecosystem benefits they provide, and the various stresses they are exposed to, and discussed the efforts at management of these fragile ecosystems, identifies the institutional vacuum and suggests priority area where immediate attention is required in order to formulate better conservation strategies for these productive systems.

TL;DR: The main purpose of as discussed by the authors is to highlight the institutional change needs for sustainable urban water management in India, which will involve one or combination of organizational change measures comprising decentralization, creation of autonomous utilities, private sector participation and community-based management; directive reforms; and human resource development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether solar pumps for groundwater irrigation are technically feasible and economically viable in India and proposed large-scale promotion of solar pump for well irrigation as a way to make agricultural growth carbon-neutral and groundwater use in farming sustainable.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the institutional and market-based instruments that are now being advocated by scholars and practitioners as potential instruments for sustainable groundwater use, mainly focusing on research that examined the viability and impacts of establishing private and tradable water rights in groundwater and pro rata pricing of electricity for irrigation use as instruments to arrest the problems of groundwater over-exploitation in India.

TL;DR: Sharma et al. as mentioned in this paper identified three broad and distinct regional typologies in India for deciding the nature of water management interventions for different regions, and proposed the types for water management works under NREGS for each typology, which has the potential to generate labour demand, while producing welfare effects.