Political economy of the energy-groundwater nexus in India: exploring issues and assessing policy options
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"Political economy of the energy-gro..." refers background in this paper
...This was viewed as a ‘public good’ created by private action which needed to be supported and even subsidized (Dhawan 1982; Shah 1993)....
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...These opened up small-holders’ access to irrigation in ways that government efforts had not succeeded in doing (Wilson 2002; Shah 1993)....
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...Studies in the 1980s showed that these localized, informal ‘water markets’ were pervasive throughout the length and breadth of South Asia (Shah 1993; Pant 1991; MeinzenDick and Sullins 1994; Wilson 2002; Nagaraj et al. 2005; Palmer Jones 1994)....
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...1980s showed that these localized, informal ‘water markets’ were pervasive throughout the length and breadth of South Asia (Shah 1993; Pant 1991; MeinzenDick and Sullins 1994; Wilson 2002; Nagaraj et al. 2005; Palmer Jones 1994)....
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...reason was that tubewell connections were widely dispersed in a vast country side, with most located in remote places that were not easy to reach (Shah 1993; Rao and Govindarajan 2003)....
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...In the US context, Henry Vaux once said that “groundwater depletion is always self-terminating” because rising pumping costs would make it uneconomic to lift groundwater beyond a certain depth (Shah 2009a)....
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...The area irrigated by groundwater wells now is far in excess of the area served by public canal systems and the small-scale community tanks that dominated irrigation for millennia (Shah 2009a)....
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...…management and supply-side measures (such as groundwater recharge and conjunctive management of surface and groundwater) can, over a 7–10 year period, replace a groundwater regime of secular long-term depletion by a regime with relative longterm stability with seasonal fluctuation (Shah 2009b)....
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...States in western and central United States have created tradable rights in groundwater (Shah 2009a)....
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