Reports:

Papers for Conference / Seminars:

• Kumar, M. Dinesh. and Nitin Bassi. 2011. Maximizing the Social and Economic Returns from Sardar Sarovar Project: Thinking beyond the Convention. Presented at the third workshop on History, Evolution and Future of Sardar Sarovar Project, organized by CEPT, Ahmedabad, January 3, 2011.
  
  
• Kumar, M. Dinesh, A. Narayanamoorthy and MVK Sivamohan.2011. Institutional Change Needs for Sustainable Urban water Management in India. Paper presented at the 13th Bi-annual Conference of International Association of Study of Commons, Hyderabad, January 10-14, 2011.
  
  
• Kumar, M. Dinesh, A. Narayanamoorthy and MVK Sivamohan.2011. Pampered views and Parrot Talks: In the Cause of Well Irrigation in India. Paper presented at the 13th Bi-annual Conference of International Association of Study of Commons, Hyderabad, January 10-14, 2011.
  
  
• Bassi, N. and Kumar, M.D. 2011. Institutional change for sustainable urban water management in India: Adaptation to changing environment. Paper presented at SIWI World Water Week on Responding to Global Changes: Water in an Urbanising World, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-27 August 2011.
  
  
• Bassi, N. and Kumar, M.D. 2011. Reforms for end-users based irrigation management: Insight from central India. Paper presented at 13th IASC Biennial Conference on Sustaining Commons: Sustaining our Future, Hyderabad, India, 10-14 January 2011.
  
  
• Niranjan, V., Kumar, M.D., Bassi, N and Yusuf Kabir. 2011. Developing A Household Vulnerability Index For Rural Area. Poster presented at the XIV IWRA World Water Congress, held at Porto de Galinhas – PE, Brazil, September 25 – 29, 2011 .
  
  

• Kumar, M.D. and Bassi, N. 2011. Maximizing the Social and Economic Returns from Sardar Sarovar Project: Thinking beyond the Convention. In Parthsarthi, R. and Dholakiya, R. (Eds), Sardar Sarovar Project on the River Narmada: Impacts So Far and Ways Forward, 747-776. Delhi: Concept Publishing.


• Bassi, N. and Kumar, M.D. 2011. Rebuilding traditional water harnessing systems for livelihood enhancement in western Rajasthan. In Proceedings of the XIV IWRA World Water Congress on Adaptive Water Management: Looking to the Future, 16 pages. Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil, 25 – 29 September 2011.

Publications :

• Kumar, M. Dinesh. 2009. "Water Management in India: What Works, What Doesn't"; Gyan Books, New Delhi.
  
  
• Kumar, M. Dinesh. 2010. "Managing Water in River Basins: Hydrology, Economics and Institutions"; Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
  
  
• Kumar, M. Dinesh, Sivamohan, MVK, Bassi,N. 2012. "Water Management, Food Security And Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Economies"; Routledge, UK.
  
  
• Forthcoming Book: Jagadeesan, S. and M. Dinesh Kumar. 2012: on Socio Economic and Environmental Impacts of Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat (Title yet to be decided)

Journal Articles:

• Kumar, M. Dinesh., Christopher, A. Scott. And O.P. Singh. 2013. Can India raise agricultural water productivity while reducing groundwater and energy use? International Journal of Water Resources Development, Routledge, iFirst article, pp1-17.
  http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BWD2sAaiTFkIG4kmxUwr/full
  
  
• Kumar, M. Dinesh, A. Narayanamoorthy, Nitin Bassi, V. Niranjan. 2011. Addressing Agricultural Water Management Challenges in the Twelfth Plan: Some Pointers, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 66, No. 3
  
  
• Kumar, M. Dinesh., Christopher, A. Scott. And O.P. Singh. 2011. Inducing the shift from flat-rate or free agricultural power to metered supply: Implications of groundwater depletion and power sector viability in India, Journal of Hydrology 409(2011), pp382-394.
  
  
• Bassi, N. and Kumar, M.D. 2012. Addressing the civic challenges: Perspective on institutional change for sustainable urban water management in India. Environment and Urbanization Asia 3 (1): 165-183.
  
  
• Bassi, N. and Kumar, M.D. 2011. Can sector reforms improve efficiency? Insight from irrigation management transfer in central India. International Journal of Water Resources Development 27 (4): 709-721.
  
  
• Kumar, M.D.; Bassi, N.; Sivamohan, M.V.K. and Niranjan, V. 2011. Employment guarantee and its environmental impact: Are the claims valid? Economic and Political Weekly 46 (34): 69-71.
  
  
• Kumar, M.D. and Bassi, N. 2011. Ghost workers and invisible dams. The Great Indian Dream 1 (2): 14-17.
  
  

IRAP Occasional Papers:

• Pampered Views And Parrot Talks: In the Cause of Well Irrigation in India. Click Here
  
  
• Gujarat's Agricultural Growth Story: Exploding Some Myth. Click Here
  
  
• NREGA AND RURAL WATER MANAGEMENT IN INDIA: Improving the Welfare Effects Click Here
  
  
• GROUND WATER MANAGEMENT IN ANDHRA PRADESH: Time to Address Real Issues Click Here
  
  
• CAPACITY BUILDING IN WATER RESOURCES SECTOR OF INDIA: Click Here
  
  
  
• SMALL WATER HARVESTING AND ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE INTERVENTIONS IN SINGODA RIVER BASIN, COASTAL SAURASHTRA: Hydrology and Socio-Economic Impacts Click Here

Research Reports:

• AMBUJA CEMENT FOUNDATION, Mumbai
  
  Blending scientific knowledge with social engineering: Physical and socio economic impacts of land and water based interventions of ACF in coastal Gujarat and western Rajasthan

• ARGHYAM, Bangalore:

1. Report on developing a tool kit on Integrated Urban Water Management in different Urban Typologies of Inda. Click Here


2. Tool Kit for Integrated Urban Water Management for different urban typologies of India. Click Here
   
   

• WWF India, New Delhi:

1. Irrigation Efficiencies and Water Productivity in Sugarcane in Godavari River Basin, Maharashtra

• Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai:

1. Hydrological and Farming System Impacts of Agricultural Water Management Interventions for Sustainable Groundwater Use in North Gujarat & Strategies for improving the poor Farmers Access to Groundwater. Click Here



2. Making Rehabilitation Work: Protocols for Improving Performance of Irrigation Tanks in Andhra Pradesh