@ 'India on brink of worst water crisis'. Water crisis in India is not a new thing. Many reports in the past also pointed out this. The question remains what has been done so far by the governance. Neither hi-fi expensive infrastructure development nor rainwater harvesting have the potential to bridge the water demand-supply gap. For a practical solution to the water crisis problem in reality, the mental attitude and behavior of all stakeholders in water use and consumption need to be changed. All countries are confronted with water scarcity of varying types. The daunting biggest challenge for the authorities is in protecting groundwater from depletion and pollution, and making sound managing decisions on complex issues/activities that may affect water supply at local and basin scale. For short-term situation management when water supplies are affected, the managers usually adopt approaches, which involve eliminating immediate, unacceptable impacts on human and the environment, groundwater-use restrictions, regulation, balancing time and resources. However, these may require more research, time, regulations, funding, technology, etc., and as well as may be expensive/complex.   In this context, I have pleasure to inform you that with my over four decades of experience and extensive field investigations on hydrological studies on groundwater covering fourteen river basins in India, I have authored a book 'BETTER GROUNDWATER GOVERNANCE ONLY CAN ENSURE SUSTAINED WATER SUPPLY', published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.    This book identifies the issues that affect water supply; and makes scientific endeavors to improve all stakeholders’ awareness and understanding of real groundwater problems, and suggests governance approaches by relevant policies, with strong peoples’ participation efforts by behavioral change. In addition to need for better governance of groundwater, the book also discuses in detail and also highlights groundwater geo-ethical issues and dimensions in practical reality and the need of change in mental attitude and behavior in all the stakeholders. The analysis may be especially useful to professionals, academics, researchers, students in water governance and communication for implementing groundwater resources protection strategies, and long-term solutions to ensure sustained water supply for public benefit. It would be worthwhile to keep a few copies of the book in the library of your organizations, institutes, and agencies, or in your personal library.The price of the book is set at 32.90 Euro/copy. You may find the book available on the publisher’s general partner bookstore on the link given below: https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/better-groundwater-governance-only-can-ensure-sustained-water-supply/isbn/978-3-330-32219-6 Prof. Partha Sarathi Datta (M.Sc., Ph. D., IIT Kanpur) Experienced Adviser and Consultant on Water and Environment; Vice-President (IAPG-INDIA) (Former Director, NRL, IARI), New Delhi, India Author of 'BETTER GROUNDWATER GOVERNANCE ONLY CAN ENSURE SUSTAINED WATER SUPPLY', LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-3-330-32219-6. Available on Website: https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details//store/gb/book/978-3-330-32219-6/better-groundwater-governance-only-can-ensure-sustained-water-supply

Published June 18, 2018 11:39 by Prof. Partha Sarathi Datta, Independent Consultant on Water & Environment