Droughts and integrated water resource management in South Asia [electronic resource]

Droughts have formed an inseparable part of South Asian history and culture, with. tragic consequences for a region that houses the greatest number of the world's. poor. However, this volume challenges the popular conception of drought, which. is presented as an absolute shortage-scarcity with respect to an implicit understanding. of the sufficiency of water. It highlights the fact that while available water. supplies may be a given quantum, droughts are differentially experienced, politically. inspired and socially constituted. It emphasises that the relative water scarcity. needs to be appre