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Tushaar Shah is affiliated with the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka. Their research spans Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on Water Science and Technology, Ocean Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Smart Grid Energy Management

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Tushaar Shah are:

  • Abhishek Rajan
  • P Gyan
  • Praharsh M. Patel
  • Dipankar Saha
  • Regassa E. Namara

Tushaar Shah's publication venues include:

  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Cambridge Prisms Water
  • Economic and political weekly/Economic & political weekly
  • Agriculture
  • Ecology Environment and Conservation

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Tushaar Shah are:

  • Water-energy-food-environment nexus in action: Global review of precepts and practice, 2023, Cambridge Prisms Water
  • wl-7023-The Case for Grid-connected Solar Irrigation Pumps: Evidence from Gujarat's Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY), 2025, Economic and political weekly/Economic & political weekly
  • A comparative analysis of current and emerging construction materials and techniques, 2025, Ecology Environment and Conservation

Other notable papers connected to Shah's research network include:

  • Sustainability of groundwater through community-driven distributed recharge: An analysis of arguments for water scarce regions of semi-arid India, 2020, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Impact of Irrigation on India's Dairy Economy, 2020, Agriculture

Tushaar Shah has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks:

  • Accelerating Irrigation Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020

Best Publications

  • Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia

    Tushaar Shah

  • Groundwater markets and irrigation development

    Tushaar Shah

  • Groundwater markets and irrigation development : political economy and practical policy

    Tushaar Shah

  • To The Hands Of The Poor: Water And Trees

    Robert Chambers;N.C. Saxena;Tushaar Shah

  • Sustaining Asia’s groundwater boom: An overview of issues and evidence

    Tushaar Shah;Aditi Deb Roy;Asad S Qureshi;Jinxia Wang

  • Climate change and groundwater: India's opportunities for mitigation and adaptation

    Tushaar Shah

  • From IWRM back to integrated water resources management

    Mark Giordano;Tushaar Shah

  • The global groundwater situation: overview of opportunities and challenges

    Tushaar Shah;David J. Molden;Ramasamy Sakthivadivel;David Seckler

  • Groundwater socio-ecology and governance: a review of institutions and policies in selected countries

    Aditi Mukherji;Tushaar Shah

  • Energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia: Improving groundwater conservation and power sector viability

    Tushaar" "Shah;Christopher A Scott;Avinash Kishore;Abhishek Sharma

  • Institutional alternatives in African smallholder irrigation: Lessons from international experience with irrigation management transfer

    Tushaar Shah;Barbara van Koppen;Douglas J. Merrey;Marna de Lange

  • Groundwater: a global assessment of scale and significance

    T. Shah;J. Bruke;K. Vullholth;M. Angelica

  • Groundwater: a global assessment of scale and significance

    Tushaar Shah;J. Burke;K. Villholth;M. Angelica

  • Some aspects of South Asia's groundwater irrigation economy: analyses from a survey in India, Pakistan, Nepal Terai and Bangladesh

    Tushaar Shah;Om Prakash Singh;Aditi Mukherji

  • Groundwater overdraft reduction through agricultural energy policy: insights from India and Mexico

    Christopher A. Scott;Tushaar Shah

  • Groundwater and human development: challenges and opportunities in livelihoods and environment

    Tushaar Shah

  • The groundwater economy of South Asia: an assessment of size, significance and socio-ecological impacts

    Tushaar Shah

  • India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations.

    Upali A. Amarasinghe;Tushaar Shah;Hugh Turral;B.K. Anand

  • Limits to leapfrogging: issues in transposing successful river basin management institutions in the developing world

    T. Shah;I. Makin;R. Sakthivadivel

  • Groundwater governance through electricity supply management: Assessing an innovative intervention in Gujarat, western India

    Tushaar Shah;Sonal Bhatt;R.K. Shah;Jayesh Talati

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Giordano
Mark Giordano Georgetown University
Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers University of Maryland, College Park
David Molden
David Molden World Bank
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Vladimir U. Smakhtin
Vladimir U. Smakhtin United Nations University
Hugh Turral
Hugh Turral International Water Management Institute
Rai S. Kookana
Rai S. Kookana Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jinxia Wang
Jinxia Wang Peking University
Francois Molle
Francois Molle Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Paul Pavelic
Paul Pavelic International Water Management Institute

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