Presented by IWMI's Jeremy Bird at the 2016 Budapest Water Summit, 28-30 November 2016.

1. Jeremy Bird
International Water Management
Institute
Budapest Water Summit
28-30 November 2016
Based on the work of Tushaar
Shah, Karen Villholth, Paul
Pavelic and partners
Taming the Anarchy –
towards sustainable use of groundwater
Photo: Hamish John Appelby / IWMI

2. How much longer can groundwater management remain
‘off’ the mainstream water agenda?
Source: IWMI

3. Need for transitional solutions – e.g. separate feeders in
India
• Elusive problem – subsidy;
excessive pumping; over
abstraction; financial loss to
utilities
• Pragmatic solution - separation
of electricity supply to villages
and pumps
• Outcome - reduced electricity
use, recovering water tables,
improved power supply to
domestic users, higher yields

4. • India has 130,000 GW of
installed pumping capacity in
electric and diesel tube wells
• Shifting to a solar power
source could reduce India’s
Greenhouse Gas emissions by
up to 6%
• Threat of over-use and
resource depletion
• Adopt a hybrid approach –
solar irrigation + feed in tariff
• Provides a ‘nexus’ solution
Agricultural livelihoods -
Energy - Water - Climate
Solar irrigation - the ‘opportunity’ and the ‘risk’
Solar pumps offer 2800-3000 hrs/yr of
top quality, day-time power, free.

5. SPaRC:
You cannot charge Rs 7/unit of grid power to farmers;
BUT YOU CAN PAY THEM Rs 7 FOR THEIR SURPLUS SOLAR POWER
WHICH THEY DO NOT USE TO PUMP WATER
MGVCL’s 25 year Power purchase guarantee at
Rs 4.63/unit
Project Green Energy Bonus: Rs 1.25/kWh
Project Water Conservation Bonus: Rs 1.25/kWh
Total Feed in Tariff:
Rs 7. 13/kWh
Earned Rs 90,000/ in 4 months
IWMI CCAFS Pilot: Solar Power as a Remunerative Crop

6. A water-secure world
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Solar
Power
Sales
Incentives at work in reducing abstractions – triple win

7. A water-secure world
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Cooperative members receive first payments for energy sales

8. A water-secure world
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Solarising 15 million 6.5 kW grid-connected solar irrigation
pumps would give 100 GW solar capacity targeted by 2022
Gains
from
SPaRC
US $ 800/
year/solar
farmer
Grid Power
subsidy
savings US $
11 billion/year
30-35 % drop in
Groundwater
use in irrigation
CO2 emissions
drops by 13
mmt/ year
Release 30%
of grid
capacity
150 billion
kWh solar
/year

9. A water-secure world
www.iwmi.org

10. www.iwmi.org
Water for a food-secure world
>60% of inner Ganges
Basin potentially suitable
for managed aquifer
recharge
Rethinking storage: retaining flood water
underground – a new reality?

11. GRIPP – objectives
• Enhance the role of groundwater management in reaching the SDGs
• Showcase and out-scale success stories
• Support governments in adopting evidence-based policies and approaches
• Implement research that enhances and sustains groundwater benefits
Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP)

12. 1. Groundwater and Food Security
2. Groundwater for Sustainable
Development
3. Groundwater, Water Security and
Climate Change Adaptation
4. Groundwater and Energy
5. Transboundary Aquifers
6. Groundwater Governance
GRIPP Program Areas/Themes
Top
Irrigation project near Ziway, Ethiopia
Picture credit: Petterik Wiggers
Bottom
Pumping groundwater to irrigate fields in Nepal
Picture credit: Fraser Sugden

13. GRIPP Knowledge Products
Case Study Briefs Series No 1
Aquifer Contracts - A Means to Solving
Groundwater Over-exploitation in Morocco?
http://gripp.iwmi.org

14. GRIPP Collaborating Partners (current)

15. www.iwmi.org https://wle.cgiar.org/
https://ccafs.cgiar.org/
Photo: Prashanth Vishwanathan/IWMI