Other writings

Beyond this blog, I have been writing, contributing to articles, chapters, magazines in other spaces. Here is a gist of that.

Joshi, D. 2022. Book Review: Running out: In search of water on the high plains, Princeton University Press 2022, by Lucas Bessire, Water Alternatives https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/boh/item/287-bessire
Aslekar, U., Joshi, D., & Kulkarni, H. (2022). What are we allocating and who decides? Democratising understanding of groundwater and decisions for judicious allocations in India. Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture.
Kulkarni, H., Joshi, D., Aslekar, U., & Patil, S. (2021). Catalysing Groundwater Governance Through People’s Participation and Institutional Reform. In Water Governance and Management in India. Springer Singapore.
Zwarteveen, M., Kuper, M., Olmos-Herrera, C., Dajani, M., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Frances, C., … & Joshi, D., De Bont, C. (2021). Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 49, 88-97.
Joshi D., Kulkarni H., and Aslekar U (2019). Bringing Aquifers and Communities Together: Decentralised Groundwater Governance in Rural India. In Water Governance: Challenges and Prospects, pp. 157-185. Springer
Kulkarni H., Aslekar U., Joshi D. (2018) Specific Yield of Unconfined Aquifers in Revisiting Efficiency of Groundwater Usage in Agricultural Systems. In: Saha D., Marwaha S., Mukherjee A. (eds) Clean and Sustainable Groundwater in India. Springer Hydrogeology. Springer, Singapore
Joshi, D and Aslekar, U. (2018). Understanding the triggers of groundwater competition in Maharashtra. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 53, Issue No. 2.
Joshi, D. (2017). Promoting Farm Ponds. Economic & Political Weekly, 52(16), 71.

Workshops and Conferences

Joshi D. (2024): Letting go, holding onto- politics of excess water in Maharashtra, India in era of monsoon variability; paper presented in panel on Monsoonal Geographies of South Asia at Royal Geographical Society’s Annual Conference London
Joshi D. (2024): Beyond the ‘water level’: entangled ontologies and epistemologies of groundwater monitoring in Maharashtra, India; seminar at Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy at Edinburgh (SKAPE), University of Edinburgh
Joshi D. (2023): Peeping down, looking forward: exploring knowledge(s) of groundwater governance in Maharashtra, India; paper presented at Centre for South Asian Studies organised South Asian Anthropocenes workshop, University of Edinburgh
Joshi D (2022): Recognising ‘other’ knowledges of groundwater: Case from Maharashtra, India presented in ‘Valuing Groundwater (III) session: Ear to the Ground: community-based approaches to groundwater management’ organised at World Water Week 2022.
Joshi D (2021): Situated knowledges, global discourses: Exploring the ‘neutral’ and ‘universal’ in groundwater governance presented in session Situated knowledges of water justice organised at Delft Socio hydrology Conference, Delft, Netherlands.
Joshi D. (2019): Dependencies, vulnerabilities and changing practices of groundwater use and access in Maharashtra; Presented at Conference on Rural India 2019: Towards inclusion of the marginalised; organised by Vikasanvesh Foundation, Tata Trusts, Pune
Joshi, D. (2017): Why are there seldom any conflicts over groundwater? – An analysis; Paper presented at Round Table on Water Management and Governance, organised by JTSDS, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Aslekar, U. and Joshi, D. (2015): Participatory groundwater management: an effective tool for groundwater management and strengthening drinking water security. Workshop on water conservation, water security and water quality under Jal Kranti Abhiyan, Central Groundwater Board, Nagpur

Popular Articles

Demystifying groundwater for collective action (2021); India Water Portal (here: https://www.indiawaterportal.org/article/demystifying-groundwater-collective-action)
A 3-year journey from Water Scarcity to Security (2015), India Water Portal
भूजल: एक अदृश पण महत्वपूर्ण संसाधनाची कथा (2016), चाणक्य मंडळ परिवार अंक (Marathi Language)
शहर, भूजल आणि स्मार्ट सिटी (2017), जलोपासना दिवाळी अंक (Marathi Language)