Dr. Tushaar Shah

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  In communities where underground water sources have dried up entirely, all agriculture is rain-fed and drinking water is trucked in. Tushaar Shah, who heads the International Water Management Institute's groundwater station in Gujarat, says of India's water situation, "When the balloon bursts, untold anarchy will be the lot of rural India."
  
  In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas--three leading grain-producing states--the underground water table has dropped by more than 30 meters (100 feet).As a result, wells have gone dry on thousands of farms in the southern Great Plains.

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  In communities where underground water sources have dried up entirely, all agriculture is rain-fed and drinking water is trucked in. Tushaar Shah, who heads the International Water Management Institute's groundwater station in Gujarat, says of India's water situation, "When the balloon bursts, untold anarchy will be the lot of rural India."
  
  In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas - three leading grain-producing states - the underground water table has dropped by more than 30 metres (100 feet).As a result, wells have gone dry on thousands of farms in the southern Great Plains.

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  Tushaar Shah, director of the International Water Management Institute's groundwater research station in Gujarat, estimates those farmers are pumping annually to the surface 100 cubic kilometers more water than the monsoon rains replace.

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  In communities where underground water sources have dried up entirely, all agriculture is rain-fed and drinking water is trucked in. Tushaar Shah, who heads the International Water Management Institute's groundwater station in Gujarat, says of India's water situation, "When the balloon bursts, untold anarchy will be the lot of rural India."
  
  In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas--three leading grain-producing states--the underground water table has dropped by more than 30 meters (100 feet).As a result, wells have gone dry on thousands of farms in the southern Great Plains.

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  Tushaar ShahIWMI : About IWMI - People
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  TUSHAAR SHAH
  
  Senior Advisor to the DG
  
  IWMI India
  
  Tushaar Shah joined IWMI in 1999 as leader of the program on Policy, Institutions and Management.In 2001, he took over the leadership of IWMI's new theme on Sustainable Groundwater Management.Shah also built and led the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program in India--the first ever collaboration between an international center and an Indian foundation.In 2005, Shah created two IWMI research projects funded under the Challenge Program for Water and Food: "Groundwater Governance in Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins" and "Strategic Analyses of India's National River-Linking Project".In 2002, Shah was selected for the CG award for 'Outstanding Scientist of the Year'.
  
  Shah obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad and specialized as a development economist and strategic management specialist.He was formerly the Director of the Institute of Rural Management at Anand during 1987-95.Before his IWMI years, Shah consulted with scores of NGOs, government and lending institutions including the World Bank, Ford Foundation, Swiss Agency for Development Co-operation, Swedish International Development Agency.He also consulted extensively with private Indian foundations including Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.He has also served on the boards of some 25 Indian NGOs and research centers including as the chairman of IDE, India and PRADAN.He also serves on the Academic Council of the Chinese Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP).Most recently, Shah served on several committees of the Government of India for developing the irrigation component of India's 11th Five-Year Plan as well as a committee of the Indian Planning Commission on Sustainable Groundwater Management.He was also invited to make submissions to the Finance Minister in pre-budget briefings.Shahs research at IWMI contributed to the formulation of US $ 450 m groundwater recharge scheme for hard-rock districts by the Government of India and a US $ 270 m investment by the government of Gujarat in improved farm power infrastructure for sustainable groundwater management.
  
  Shah works out of Anand in Western India, primarily on water policies and institutions.

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  "Governments' inability to regulate this practice is giving rise to scary scenarios of groundwater over-exploitation, which could lead to regional food crises and widespread social unrest," said Tushaar Shah of IWMI.

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  In communities where underground water sources have dried up entirely, all agriculture is rain-fed and drinking water is trucked in. Tushaar Shah, who heads the International Water Management Institute's groundwater station in Gujarat, says of India's water situation, "When the balloon bursts, untold anarchy will be the lot of rural India."
  
  In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansasâ€"three leading grain-producing statesâ€"the underground water table has dropped by more than 30 meters (100 feet).As a result, wells have gone dry on thousands of farms in the southern Great Plains.

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  Mr Tushaar Shah is an Indian hydrologist with the International Water Management Institute, part of a worldwide network of farm research centres funded by the World Bank.
  
  He estimates that India, China and Pakistan together pump 400 cu km of water out of the ground each year, about twice as much as is recharged by rain. These three countries, with a combined population of nearly 2.6 billion, account for more than half the world's use of underground water for agriculture.

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  The deficit is increasing every year," said Tushar Shah, principal scientist, International Water Management Institute of India. He was also the chairman of the committee that submitted the report to the government last month.

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  Dr. Tushaar Shah, Research Scientist, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

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