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Understanding peri-urban water flows_Vishal Narain
1. Understanding periurban water
flows
Implications for governance and urban
planning
Vishal Narain, MDI, Gurgaon
National Seminar organized by CSH, Human Settlement
Management Institute, Delhi
July 15-16,2011
2. Overview of presentation
• Conceptualizing periurban
– What do we mean by periurban
• Research design and context: the growth
of Gurgaon city
• The case studies of Budheda and
Sadhraana
• Implications for governance and
sustainability of cities
3. Conceptualizing periurban
• No consensus definition
• As a place
– Villages around cities
– Most commonly used connotation of the term
• As a process
– Process of transition from rural to urban
• As a concept
– An analytic construct to study rural-urban
relationships and flows of goods and services
4. Features of periurban
• Mixed and changing land use
– Agricultural lands, mining, farmhouses of urban elite,
conservation and recreation centers
• Natural resources under stress and contestation:
land acquisition for urban expansion, receive
urban wastes
• Social heterogeneity and flux
• Erosion of social capital
– Migration, acquisition of CPRs
5. Why do periurban areas need
attention?
• Urbanization a fact of life in the developing world
• Periurban areas will grow in importance; will
shape the nature of urbanization processes
• Receive scant attention because of
fragmentation between rural development and
urban planning
• Discussions of sustainable cities are incomplete
till we understand how their ecological foot-print
is borne (the notion of space is important)
6. Research context: the growth of
Gurgaon city
• Growing as a major residential,
outsourcing and recreation hub
• Narratives about the millenium city flood
the media
• Projected as a “global city” with an
impressive skyline
• Visual landscape
– tall skyscrapers co-existing with village
settlement areas and agricultural fields
7. The growth of Gurgaon city
• Three major reasons behind its growth
– proximity to the national capital and
international airport
– initiatives of state government
• policies for SEZs (special economic zones)
– real estate boom since the 1980s has driven
land use change
8. The research questions
• How does urbanization affect water use
and access of periurban residents ?
• How do they adapt to the changes in
water availability as a result of the above
processes ?
• What are the implications for water
governance, urban expansion and
sustainability ?
9. Research location and design
• Two villages
– Budheda and Sadhraana
– Periurban Gurgaon
• Qualitative research design /ethnographic
approach
– case study method
– semi-structured interviews with residents
– key informant interviews
– focus group meetings
– direct observation
– secondary sources of data
– (a more structured survey is still underway)
10. Sadhraana Village
• Population of 3500 people
– 425 households
• Major crops grown
– wheat, mustard, sorghum, pearl-millet,
vegetables and lentils
• No irrigation canal or sewage based
irrigation
– only groundwater
11. Land use change over the last two
decades
• Gradual Process of land use change
– 80 acres acquired for the Sultanpur National
Park
– 600 acres sold off to farm-houses
– 150 acres acquired for Reliance SEZ
• Left with about 40% of the net cultivated
area recorded in the 1960s
• Land and water appropriated by the urban
elite
12. Major pressures on groundwater
• Tubewells dug for Sultanpur National Park
– Now gets its water from the GWS channel
• Farm-houses major appropriator of groundwater
– extract water using high powered submersible pump-
sets not affordable by locals
– acquire the land over the ‘fresh’ groundwater
– transport water over 3-4 km to their farm-houses
using underground pipes when the farm-houses are
located over saline groundwater
• Results of a legal framework and water rights structure that is
inequitable
13. Impacts of growing pressures
– Fall in water table over last decade
• 60 ft to 100 ft
• 20 ft to 60 ft
– Farmers accessing saline groundwater
• unfit for agriculture and livestock
– Small and marginal farmers unable to afford
the high costs of extraction
• a submersible pump-set: Rs 100000 to Rs 125000
14. Adaptation to water scarcity
• Technological adaptation
– From lao chedas, rainth to tubewells and submersibles
• small and marginal farmers left out
– Use of sprinklers
• water scarcity
• Sandy soil and undulating terrain
• less labor-intensive irrigation technologies
• Leave land fallow
• Take only one crop per year
• Switch to rain fed crops
• Buy water based on social relations
– Social capital eroded in periurban areas
15. Budheda
• 725 households and 5500 people
• Crops grown
– wheat, mustard, sorghum, pearl-millet,
vegetables
• Many sources of irrigation depending on
location of fields
– tubewells/submersibles/ urban sewage
16. Land use change: bearing the
ecological foot-print of urbanization
• Major source of land to supply water to the city:
– 129 acres of land for a WTP for Gurgaon city
• 30 acres in a second round of acquisition
• 12 acres of grazing land for the same plant
– Livestock dependent village with strong reliance on grazing
lands
– 17 acres for each of the two canals to carry water for
WTP at Basai
– Left with just about a fourth of its net cultivated area
17. The rural-urban water nexus
• The Gurgaon Water Supply Channel passes
through the village to carry water to Basai WTP
for Gurgaon city
– source of opportunity and conflict
– raised local water table
– pipe outlet installed for village pond
– tube wells installed to benefit from water table rise
• Had to be removed when the NCR channel was dug
• Highlights vulnerability of farmers to uncertain water supply
18. Use of urban wastewater
• A wastewater canal passes through the village,
carrying the city’s waste
– Untreated sewage
• Rich in nutrients, removes the need for costly application of
fertilizers and water pumping
– Farmers irrigate paddy and wheat
• Pay irrigation department for its use
– Associated with adverse health effects for producers
and consumers of the produce
– Now the only source of irrigation with the removal of
tubewells
• Highlights vulnerability to an uncertain water supply
19. What these studies tell us…
• Urbanization changes periurban water use
and access
• Flows of water between villages and cities
are in both directions
• Urbanization creates water insecurity (and
not just scarcity)
• These flows need better appreciation in
urban infrastructure provision and supply
augmentation
20. Significance of the notion of
periurban
• Brings a new dimension to urban planning
• Highlights the notion of space – when we
talk of a sustainable city, then what are
we talking about ?
• Questions the fragmented nature of
conventional planning approaches
between rural development and urban
planning
21. Implications for governance
• As urbanization advances, periurban areas (and issues)
will rise in significance
• Current processes of urbanization bear well neither for
equity nor for sustainability
– Cities growing beyond the carrying capacity compromise
periurban residents’ access both to land and water
• Base urban expansion plans on studies of carrying
capacity of cities
• Recognise the flows of water between rural and urban
areas
– Move away from seeing “rural water supply” and “urban water
supply” as distinct conceptual entities