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Political economy of the energy-groundwater nexus in India: exploring issues and assessing policy options
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In this article, the authors explored the nature and scale of the distortions it has created, and alternative approaches which Indian policy makers can use to limit, if not eliminate, the damaging impacts of the distortion.Abstract:
Indian agriculture is trapped in a complex nexus of groundwater depletion and energy subsidies. This nexus is the product of past public policy choices that initially offered opportunities to India’s small-holder-based irrigation economy but has now generated in its wake myriad economic, social, and environmental distortions. Conventional ‘getting-the-price-right’ solutions to reduce these distortions have consistently been undermined by the invidious political economy that the nexus has created. The historical evolution of the nexus is outlined, the nature and scale of the distortions it has created are explored, and alternative approaches which Indian policy makers can use to limit, if not eliminate, the damaging impacts of the distortions, are analysed.read more
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Machine learning based groundwater prediction in a data-scarce basin of Ghana
Ebenezer K. Siabi,Yihun T. Dile,Amos T. Kabo-bah,Mark Amo-Boateng,Geophrey Anornu,Komlavi Akpoti,Christopher Vuu,Peter Donkor,Samuel K. Mensah,Awo Boatemaa Manson Incoom,E. Opoku,Thomas Atta-Darkwa +11 more
TL;DR: In this article , two artificial neural networks (ANN) models namely Feed Forward Neural Network with Multilayer Perceptron (FNN-MLP) and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) were used for the prediction of groundwater recharge using 58 years (1960-2018) of GW data.
Groundwater Variability Across India, Under Contrasting Human and Natural Conditions
TL;DR: In this article , observations from ∼15,000 groundwater monitoring wells and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites together with irrigation, agricultural, and meteorological datasets are analyzed to show how droughtinduced coupling between natural and anthropogenic groundwater storage variations has caused sustainability challenges in India, the world's biggest consumer of groundwater for irrigation.
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Water Management in Era of Climate Change
Hamid Nawaz,Nazim Hussain,Muhammad Shahid,Naeem Khan,Azra Yasmeen,Hafiz Waqar Ahmad,Shah Fahad,Muhammad Rafay,Wajid Nasim +8 more
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A Fifty-Year Experience of Groundwater Governance: The Case Study of Gakunan Council for Coordinated Groundwater Pumping, Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
TL;DR: The Gakunan Council for Coordinated Groundwater Pumping (CCGP) as discussed by the authors is an exceptional case, which was created to deal with a common-pool resource problem where massive groundwater pumping caused seawater intrusion in the city's coastal area due to the low cost of extraction and incomplete groundwater ownership.
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Groundwater Variability Across India, Under Contrasting Human and Natural Conditions
TL;DR: In this article , observations from ∼15,000 groundwater monitoring wells and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites together with irrigation, agricultural, and meteorological datasets are analyzed to show how drought-induced coupling between natural and anthropogenic groundwater storage variations has caused sustainability challenges in India.
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Groundwater markets and irrigation development : political economy and practical policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the lessons learned from a wide range of groundwater and irrigation projects throughout the country of India and offer information on their development, projected scope, and ultimate impact on agricultural productivity and economic activity.
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Climate change and groundwater: India's opportunities for mitigation and adaptation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a transition from surface storage to "managed aquifer storage" as the center pin of its water strategy with proactive demand-and supply-side management components.
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Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia
TL;DR: Taming the Anarchy as discussed by the authors investigates the forces behind the transformation of South Asian irrigation and considers its social, economic, and ecological impacts, and argues that without effective governance, the resulting groundwater stress threatens the sustenance of the agrarian system and therefore the well being of the nearly one and a half billion people who live in South Asia.