Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India
India is the world's largest user of groundwater, the bulk of which is used for irrigation (Hirji et al 2017). Groundwater-based irrigation was an enabling factor for the Green Revolution, which has increased food security and reduced poverty; but with abstraction exceeding recharge, 28% of administ...
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| author | Balasubramanya, Soumya Buisson, Marie-Charlotte |
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| description | India is the world's largest user of groundwater, the bulk of which is used for irrigation (Hirji et al 2017). Groundwater-based irrigation was an enabling factor for the Green Revolution, which has increased food security and reduced poverty; but with abstraction exceeding recharge, 28% of administrative blocks in India have aquifers classified as over-exploited, critical, or semi-critical (Mukherjee 2018). Governments have recently been attempting to use positive incentives to reward farmers for reducing abstraction, but such policy approaches often ignore the presence of informal groundwater markets (IGMs), where wells owners supply irrigation services to other farmers for a charge, in addition to irrigating their own fields. IGMs may undermine incentive programs; and implementing incentive programs in the presence of IGMs may have unintended welfare consequences. Better data and research on IGMs is needed for managing groundwater in India. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1219962025-10-26T12:51:40Z Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India Balasubramanya, Soumya Buisson, Marie-Charlotte groundwater management water market incentives groundwater extraction groundwater depletion groundwater irrigation wells pumps water charges farmers energy India is the world's largest user of groundwater, the bulk of which is used for irrigation (Hirji et al 2017). Groundwater-based irrigation was an enabling factor for the Green Revolution, which has increased food security and reduced poverty; but with abstraction exceeding recharge, 28% of administrative blocks in India have aquifers classified as over-exploited, critical, or semi-critical (Mukherjee 2018). Governments have recently been attempting to use positive incentives to reward farmers for reducing abstraction, but such policy approaches often ignore the presence of informal groundwater markets (IGMs), where wells owners supply irrigation services to other farmers for a charge, in addition to irrigating their own fields. IGMs may undermine incentive programs; and implementing incentive programs in the presence of IGMs may have unintended welfare consequences. Better data and research on IGMs is needed for managing groundwater in India. 2022-10-01 2022-09-30T23:49:51Z 2022-09-30T23:49:51Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121996 en Open Access IOP Publishing Balasubramanya, S.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte. 2022. Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India. Environmental Research Letters, 17(10):101001. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac914f] |
| spellingShingle | groundwater management water market incentives groundwater extraction groundwater depletion groundwater irrigation wells pumps water charges farmers energy Balasubramanya, Soumya Buisson, Marie-Charlotte Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India |
| title | Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India |
| title_full | Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India |
| title_fullStr | Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India |
| title_short | Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India |
| title_sort | positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets perspectives from india |
| topic | groundwater management water market incentives groundwater extraction groundwater depletion groundwater irrigation wells pumps water charges farmers energy |
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