The document summarizes a proposed research project on water issues in peri-urban Gurgaon, India. It introduces the project team and describes Gurgaon's rapid growth, characteristics, and emerging water conflicts between urban and rural areas. Several villages are described that illustrate different impacts, like loss of farmland and grazing areas, declining groundwater, and conflicts over resources. The proposed methodology uses qualitative methods like interviews, focus groups, observations and participatory activities to understand livelihood impacts, vulnerability, institutional relationships, and develop participatory action plans. The goal is to select 3 case study villages to analyze differing water insecurity experiences and impacts of development.
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Understanding peri-urban water flows_Vishal NarainSaciWATERs
Implications for governance and urban planning
Vishal Narain, MDI, Gurgaon
National Seminar organized by CSH, Human Settlement Management Institute, Delhi
July 15-16,2011
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Project Scope:
We are developing a project on distribution of water in Sindh. The objective of the Project is to improve irrigation water management at tertiary and maintain field levels in Sindh. The project will effectively manage the supply of water in province of Sindh located in Pakistan. This project will contain a timely based distribution of water for farmers after taking some inputs from farmers. Most of the time water is wasted during its supply and it does not reach to the original destination. Medium-size farmers will be engaged in equivalent supply of water this will help in improvement of irrigation and land improvement.
We will be registering farmers in our database to take their request for the quantity of water with the measured area of their land and their request about the quantity of water. We will develop an application/software that will communicate with farmers via SMS service in their respective language so that they can communicate comfortably. We will make a web portal to manage their requests and complaints but usually farmers are not literate that’s why we are providing SMS service for them. After keeping the data of farmers we will timely supply water to farmers and we will better analyze usage quantity of water in different seasons. The project will benefit a large population through saving extra supply of water. The project is expected to make a significant contribution to poverty reduction in Sindh Province. By using effective methods of supplying water in fields we will promote crop diversification and increased productivity.
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Aurangabad district is located mostly in Godavari Basin, fall under Maharashtra agro climatic zone-VII (Central Maharashtra Plateau Zone). It is ‘Assured Rainfall Zone’ with average rainfall of 450-650 mm.
Final Report: Software Project Management
Project Scope:
We are developing a project on distribution of water in Sindh. The objective of the Project is to improve irrigation water management at tertiary and maintain field levels in Sindh. The project will effectively manage the supply of water in province of Sindh located in Pakistan. This project will contain a timely based distribution of water for farmers after taking some inputs from farmers. Most of the time water is wasted during its supply and it does not reach to the original destination. Medium-size farmers will be engaged in equivalent supply of water this will help in improvement of irrigation and land improvement.
We will be registering farmers in our database to take their request for the quantity of water with the measured area of their land and their request about the quantity of water. We will develop an application/software that will communicate with farmers via SMS service in their respective language so that they can communicate comfortably. We will make a web portal to manage their requests and complaints but usually farmers are not literate that’s why we are providing SMS service for them. After keeping the data of farmers we will timely supply water to farmers and we will better analyze usage quantity of water in different seasons. The project will benefit a large population through saving extra supply of water. The project is expected to make a significant contribution to poverty reduction in Sindh Province. By using effective methods of supplying water in fields we will promote crop diversification and increased productivity.
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2. The Project Team
• Vishal Narain
– Economics, Rural Management,
– PhD (legal anthropology and irrigation)
• Sreoshi Singh
– Geographer with specialisation in Regional
Development, MPhil in urban development
and Planning.
– To still involve/hire
– Research Associate or a community organizer
– Preferably a first degree/background in the natural
sciences to complement the team skills
3. The growth of Gurgaon city
• Gurgaon is projected as a millenium city
• Major outsourcing hub of northwest India
– Most preferred outsourcing and high-tech destination in North India
– Home to 80% of the foreign investment of the state of Haryana
• Drawn a large number of MNCs and corporates that have located
their headquarters/manufacturing plants in the city
– Hero Honda, Maruti, Alcatel, IBM, General Electric, Nestle, Pepsi, Coca-
Cola
• Visual landscape
– tall skyscrapers co-existing with village settlement areas and
agricultural fields gradually disappearing
• Plagued by poor infrastructure, and absence of a public transport
system
• Frontiers of the city still expanding
– 56 residential sectors exist, another 56 on the anvil
– Enormous implications for water and land resources
4. Characteristics of the city
• Three major reasons behind its growth
– Proximity to the national capital and
international airport
– Initiatives of state government like policies for
SEZs
– Real estate boom since the 1980s
5. The periurban water issues
• Major Multiple claimants on water resources
– Residential areas/real estate
– glitzy malls
– Recreation, amusement parks and tourist facilities
– Farm-houses
– nature conservation (SNP)
• Peripheral villages have lost agricultural/grazing
lands
– for the above purposes
– for WTPs
– For canals to bring water to the WTPs
6. Periurban water issues in Gurgaon
• Falling water tables:
– 70% of Gurgaon’s water needs are met trhough groundwater
– Water table falling
• Rural-urban water conflicts
– Farmers breaching the Gurgaon channel that brings water to the
Basai WTP
• Rural-urban water flows
– Water tankers a common sight
– Groundwater used for irrigation now transported for nurseries to
cater to urban residents
• Urban-rural water flows
– Sewerage irrigation common in periurban parts of Gurgaon
• Pre-emption of water by farm-houses using expensive
technologies, depriving locals of access
7. Sadhraana Village
• Population of 3500 people
– 425 households
• Ahir, Pandat, Rajput, Lohaar, Nai, Harijan,
Balmeek
• Major crops grown
– wheat, mustard, sorghum, pearl-millet, vegetables
and lentils
• No irrigation canal or sewage based irrigation
– only groundwater
8. Land use change over the last two
decades
• 80 acres: Sultanpur National Park
• 600 acres: farm-houses
• 150 acres: Reliance SEZ
• Left with about 40% of the net cultivated
area recorded in the 1960s
• Land and water appropriated by the urban
elite
9. Major pressures on groundwater
• Land and water nexus
– Land below fresh water is of the highest price
• Tubewells dug for Sultanpur National Park
• Farm-houses major appropriator of groundwater
– Extract water using submersible pump-sets not
affordable by locals
• Equity implications
– Transport water over 3-4 km to their farm-houses
using underground pipes when the farm-houses are
located over saline groundwater
10. Impacts of growing pressures
– Fall in water table over last decade
• 60 ft to 100 ft
• 20 ft to 60 ft
– Farmers accessing saline groundwater
• unfit for agriculture and livestock
– Small and marginal farmers unable to afford
the high costs of extraction
• a submersible pump-set: Rs 100000 to Rs 125000
11. Responses/Adaptation strategies
• Switch to sprinkler irrigation sets
• Leave land fallow
• Take only one irrigated crop per year
• Borrow from friends/relatives
– Social capital eroded
12. Budheda
• 725 households and 5500 people
• Rao saab, Jaat, Nai, Dhobi, Khaati, Jogi,
Harijan, Balmeek, Kumbhaar, Ahir and Pandat
• Crops grown
– wheat, mustard, burseem, pearl-millet, vegetables
• Many sources of irrigation depending on location
of fields
– tubewells/submersibles/ urban sewage
13. Land use change
• Major source of land to supply water to the city:
bears its ecological foot-print
– 129 acres: WTP for Gurgaon city
– 30 acres: second round of acquisition
– 12 acres of grazing land for the same plant
• Implications for landless and minority groups that use them
for livestock
– 17 acres for each of the two canals to carry water for
WTP at Basai that is the major supplier of water for
Gurgaon
– Left with just about a fourth of its net cultivated area
14. Implications
• The Gurgaon Water Supply Channel passes
through the village to carry water to Basai WTP
for Gurgaon city
– source of opportunity and conflict
– raised local water table
– pipe outlet installed for village pond
– Tube wells installed to benefit from water table rise
• Had to be removed when the NCR channel was dug
• Highlights vulnerability of farmers to uncertain water supply
15. Sultanpur
• Well-known for the SNP
• Pressures from the Reliance SEZ and national
park: man-animal conflict
• People living in the dhaanis particularly
vulnerable to land acquisition
• The Sultanpur lake, home to over 250 bird
species is now dry
– major noise among conservationists
– reported widely in the media
– Very good case of multiple claimants over scarce
water and resulting conflicts
16. Ghata village
• A major lake is now dry because of less
rainfall and conversion of lakebed to
residential area
• This lake used to be full of water in
monsoons and used for agriculture during
rest of the year
• Authorities now building a fresh lake and
drainage system
• Drying of lake reported widely in the media
17. Waziarabad village
• Now under the Gurgaon Municipal Corporation
• All agricultural lands acquired; livestock rearing and
poultry are still common
• Large influx of migrant settlers to cater to domestic
needs of urban residential areas
• Former cultivators now buy vegetables and fruits from a
daily evening market
• With pasturelands gone, fodder obtained from parks of
residential colonies
• Water used for small kitchen gardens, nurseries to cater
to urban residential areas
• Water tankers supplying water to residential areas
common
18. Future Work Plan
• Explore further research locations around Gurgaon in
different directions
• Use that as basis for finally narrowing down to a cluster
of 3 villages based on potential richness of data and
comparative insights
– E.g. differing levels of periurban
– Different kinds of issues: use cases as ‘archetypes’ or
representations of the kinds of water insecurity experienced by
periurban residents
– Or villages adjacent to each other/close proximity to use the
concept of a ‘periurban locale’ comprising villages with
supportive and mutually constitutive flows and networks among
them
• Show how even adjacent locations exhibit differing patterns of
vulnerability depending on local factors, access to assets
19. Methodology
• Predominantly a qualitative research design with
a mix of participatory and ethnographic
approaches
– On lines presented yesterday
• Smaller quantitative studies within that based on
what needs to be quantified and why
• The qualitative component continues through
the study and does not end after the scoping
study, i.e. it is more than just a means of
narrowing down to the quantitative study
20. Specific applications of the
qualitative study
• In-depth household interviews to understand
– elements of risk, exposure, coping capacity
• Give leads into a VCI relevant to the project/periurban
settings
– The livelihoods portfolio across urban and rural
assets, patterns and role of remittances
– how different members of the household
(men/women) experience vulnerability
• Break away from household as a unit of analysis informing
conventional, structured interviews
21. Methodology
• Focus group meetings
– Examine how different groups experience
water insecurity differently
– Identify the vulnerable groups
• Key informant interviews
– Understand land transactions, forms of
influence used to acquire land
– Insecurity of land tenure shaping water
insecurity
22. Methodology
• Direct observation
– Observation of irrigation and water collection activities
to understand
• actual access
• conflicts and their resolution
• user interface with technology
• Semi-structured interviews with Panchayat
members, municipal officers
– understand their perspectives
– identify institutional lacunae
– possible interventions
23. Methodology
• PRA exercises
– To understand livelihoods (seasonality analyses)
– patterns of poverty and access (wealth-ranking)
– climate variability and changes in water supply (trend
lines)
– major impacts of development interventions on the
villages (time line)
– Institutional relationships and gaps (venn diagram)
– Changes in resource use and profile (village
transects, resource maps)
– Basis of PAP (Participatory Action Planning)
24. At the end of next six months, I
should have
• A macro level description of land use change in
Gurgaon and its implications for water use
• A brief description of villages visited and major
issues
• Final selection of research sites with basic
baseline information and rationale for selection
• Listing of key issues for further investigation
(narrowing down and focus)
• Work plan for the remainder of the study