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In designing appropriate mitigation measures, it will be very important to view the extreme events from the perspective of the common people. By undertaking research on the ecology and sociology of drought and flood events, it will be possible to separate the natural and human-induced aspects of their occurrences, as well as the diverse impacts on various social groups and genders. At the level of international river basins, like the GBM, under which several countries fall, some cooperative efforts exist for advance warning on flood events.

Economic understanding of water needs of the natural ecosystems and valuation of the services provided by water systems is an important and urgent area for research. Bergkamp (2006) has strongly advocated the use of such economic analyses as a solution to the water management crisis. The subject is emerging and the tools are not yet clearly shaped. Research on this subject can start with the review of the work done in the recent years on the relation between economics and water. It needs to be followed by empirical work on the broad application of natural resource and ecological economics on small water systems and their INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE ON WATER SYSTEMS ™ 33 services.

Examples of the Indus, Ganges and almost all the rivers in peninsular India can be taken in this regard. During the initial period of dam construction in the 1950s, these ecosystem services were not given due consideration. However, as the long-term environmental impacts associated with the altered flow regimes in the river systems started to express themselves through serious degradations of the ecosystem services, the negative contributions started to become apparent. With the emergence of holistic considerations spread all over the river basins, even in the 24 ™ WATER, ECOSYSTEMS AND SOCIETY country of origin of large dams, USA, fundamental changes in the policy towards large dams have come up.

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