Takshashila Discussion SlideDoc - Kaveri Dynamic Water Management & Livelihood Protection System

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The sharing of waters between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu of the Kaveri river has been the source of a serious political conflict between the states.

The current river water management system relies on court-administered water quotas, which are broken and dysfunctional. These slides propose to replace it with a system where states get a basic water entitlement and have to pay a Kaveri River Fund for more, and receive payouts from the Fund during drought years. It can change the issue from an emotional-political one to an ordinary-economic one, as well as give the first incentives for water conservation in the basin at the state-level.

The following set of slides propose a new “smart” river water management system that can allocate water to states in a dynamic, equitable and efficient manner.

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Nidhi Gupta
Nidhi Gupta

Nidhi Gupta was the Associate Dean and head of the Post Graduate Programme at Takshashila’s policy school. She has a Masters in Social Policy from the London School of Economics (LSE). Her research interests include gender studies and socio-economic related topics.

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