Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on authors; Cover and chapter photos; Foreword: the Ganga -- between faith and reality; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; Part I Resources and uses; 1 Introduction; 2 Surface water resources; 3 Groundwater resources; 4 Climate change and the Ganges Basin; 5 Managing variability: floods and droughts; 6 Agriculture and water use: implications for sustainable intensification in the Ganges Basin; 7 Ganges hydropower: status and challenges
8 The water-energy-food nexus in the Ganges Basin: challenges and opportunities9 Ganges Water Machine: one solution to basin water problems?; Part II Environment; 10 Environmental flows: keeping the basin rivers alive; 11 Ecosystem services and conservation assessment of freshwater biodiversity; 12 Arsenic in the eastern Ganges Basin: extent and impact on food chain and human health; 13 Ganga water quality: dirty past, promising future?; Part III Governance and livelihoods; 14 Institutions and policies governing water resources management in the Ganges River Basin
15 Poverty, inequalities and vulnerability of the rural poor16 Gender, agricultural investment and productivity in an era of out-migration; 17 Can there be progress on transboundary water cooperation in the Ganga?; 18 Water challenges of the Ganges Basin: an agenda for accelerated reform; Index
