The Ganges River Basin : status and challenges in water environment and livelihoods Surface water resources Sharad Kumar Jain Marc A. Jeuland Luna Bharati and Zahirul Haque Khan Groundwater resources Dipankar Saha Anwar Zahid Surendra Raj Shreshtha and Paul Pavelic Climate change and the Ganges Basin Marc A. Jeuland Managing variability : floods and droughts Giriraj Amarnath A.K.M. Saiful Islam and M.S. Shrestha Agriculture and water use : implications for sustainable intensification Bharat Sharma Alok K. Sikka Ram Pratap Sah and Xueliang Cai Hydropower : the status and challenges Dwarika N. Dhungel Santa Bahadur Pun Sonali Mittra and M. Monirul Qader Mirza Water food energy nexus : challenges and opportunities Christopher A. Scott Arica Crootof Bhuwan Thapa and Rashmi Kiran Shreshtha Ganges water machine : one solution to basin water problems Upali A. Amarasinghe and Lal Mutuwatte Environmental flows : keeping the basin rivers alive Vladimir Smakhtin and Luna Bharati Ecosystem services and conservation assessment of freshwater biodiversity Asghar Nawab Ravindra Kumar Sinha Paul M. Thompson and Subodh Sharma Arsenic in the eastern Ganges basin : extent and impact on food chain and human health Rajmohan Natarajan Dipankar Chakraborti and Sanmugam Prathapar Ganges water quality : dirty past promising future Javier Mateo Sagasta and Vinod Tare Institutions and policies governing water resources management M. Dinesh Kumar Dwarika N. Dhungel M. Monirul Qader Mirza and Diana Suhardiman Poverty inequalities and vulnerability of the rural poor Upali A. Amarasinghe Fraser Sugden and Floriane Clement Gender agricultural investment and productivity in an era of out migration Fraser Sugden Panchali Saikia Niki Maskey Amatya and Paras Pokhrel Can there be progress on transboundary water cooperation in the Ganges Mark Giordano Dipak Gyawali Ainun Nishat and Uttam Kumar Sinha Basin water challenges : an agenda for accelerated reform Tushaar Shah Prachanda Pradhan and Golam Rasul