There are many reasons behind the worsening groundwater situation that have led to a scarcity of quality water supply for sustaining lives and livelihoods in India, as well as in other parts of the world. The lack of a proper scientific understanding of this situation by the various stakeholders ...
Jadeja, Y.
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Maheshwari, B.
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Packham, R.
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Hakimuddin
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Purohit, R.
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Thaker, B.
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Goradiya, V.
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Oza, S.
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Dave, S.
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Soni, P.
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Dashora, Y.
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Dashora, R.
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Shah, Tushaar
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Gorsiya, J.
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Katara, P.
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Ward, J.
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Kookana, R.
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Dillon, P.J.
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Prathapar, Sanmugam A.
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Chinnasamy, Pennan
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Varua, M.
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[Participatory groundwater management at village level in India – empowering communities with science for effective decision making]
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Participatory groundwater management at village level in India – empowering communities with science for effective decision making
Although a lot more needs to be done to evolve a better strategy for managing the groundwater economy, a copybook transposition of the Californian and Spanish formula as argued in these columns 'Groundwater Management and Ownership' (February 16) seems na?ve, even disingenuous. A groundwater gove...
In India, high fluoride concentration in groundwater (greater than 1 mg/l) is widespread in the arid to semi-arid western states of Rajasthan and Gujarat and in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. A field research study conducted at six areas severely affected by fluo...
Indu, Rajnarayan
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Krishnan, Sunderrajan
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Shah, Tushaar
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[Impacts of groundwater contamination with fluoride and arsenic: affliction severity, medical cost and wage loss in some villages of India]
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Impacts of groundwater contamination with fluoride and arsenic: affliction severity, medical cost and wage loss in some villages of India
Shah, Tushaar
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Singh, Om Prakash
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Mukherji, Aditi
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[Some aspects of South Asia's groundwater irrigation economy: analyses from a survey in India, Pakistan, Nepal Terai and Bangladesh]
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Some aspects of South Asia's groundwater irrigation economy: analyses from a survey in India, Pakistan, Nepal Terai and Bangladesh
This paper examines the nexus between milk production and water use in India. The nexus is examined in the context of extended consumptive water use (CWU) of milk production beyond drinking water. It includes the real CWU (evapotranspiration (ETa) that occurs during the production of green fodder...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Shah, Tushaar
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Water-milk nexus in India: a path to a sustainable water future?]
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Water-milk nexus in India: a path to a sustainable water future?
Two decisions taken by the Government of West Bengal, one, to facilitate easier extraction of groundwater, and the other, the application of a fi xed connection fee for an electricity connection to farmers could well lead to a quantum leap in agricultural production.
Mukherji, Aditi
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Shah, Tushaar
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Banerjee, Partha Sarathi
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[Kick-starting a second green revolution in Bengal [India].]
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Kick-starting a second green revolution in Bengal [India].
The boom that India has experienced in groundwater irrigation is only weakly related to the availability of groundwater resources, long-term recharge rates and even availability of surface canal infrastructure. Dependence on groundwater has increased in rich alluvial aquifers with ample storage a...
Shah, Tushaar
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[Community response to aquifer development: distinct patterns in India's alluvial and hard rock aquifer areas]
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Community response to aquifer development: distinct patterns in India's alluvial and hard rock aquifer areas
Minimizing the negative impacts of groundwater over-exploitation, while preserving the benefits from such intensive use has emerged as the key natural resources management challenge in South Asia. Direct regulation of groundwater is not a feasible option in the region given over 20 million pumps ...
Mukherji, Aditi
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Shah, Tushaar
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Verma, S.
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[Electricity reforms and its impact on groundwater use: evidence from India]
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Electricity reforms and its impact on groundwater use: evidence from India
Projected increases in irrigation water demand required to feed India's population have been a significant component of the justification for the ambitious and highly contentious India's National River Linking Project (NRLP), which, in its ultimate form, seeks to transfer water from relatively wa...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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McCornick, Peter G.
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Shah, Tushaar
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[Projections of irrigation water demand in India: what do recent trends suggest?]
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Projections of irrigation water demand in India: what do recent trends suggest?
Groundwater, which has emerged as India's prime adaptive mechanism in times of drought, will play a crucial role this year since the aquifers were recharged in 2006-08. The impact of the drought of 2009 will therefore be less severe than the drought of 2002. Beyond the immediate response, we need...
Shah, Tushaar
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Kishore, A.
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Hemant, P.
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[Will the impact of the 2009 drought be different from 2002?]
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Will the impact of the 2009 drought be different from 2002?