Reviving the Ganges Water Machine: potential

Amarasinghe, Upali Ananda; Muthuwatta, Lal; Surinaidu, Lagudu; Anand, Sumit; Jain, Sharad Kumar

doi:10.5194/hess-20-1085-2016

Articles | Volume 20, issue 3

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Articles | Volume 20, issue 3

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15 Mar 2016

Research article |

| 15 Mar 2016

Reviving the Ganges Water Machine: potential

Upali Ananda Amarasinghe, Lal Muthuwatta, Lagudu Surinaidu, Sumit Anand, and Sharad Kumar Jain

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Short summary

The Ganges River basin has abundant surface water and groundwater resources, but the seasonal monsoon causes a mismatch between supply and demand as well as flooding. Addressing this mismatch requires substantial additional storage. A revived Ganges Water Machine, long known as use of subsurface storage with accelerated surface–subsurface water exchange, has the potential to meet 45–84 Bm³ year⁻¹ of unmet water demand, and is the most opportune solution to the pending water problems in the Ganges.