The double tragedy of irrigation systems in Tamil Nadu, India: assessment of the replacement of traditional systems by private wells
This paper investigates the impact of the replacement of traditional communal irrigation systems called tanks by modern irrigation systems, that is, private wells with pumps, using a village and household data set collected in Tamil Nadu, India. Our statistical analyses find that, once the tanks det...
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IWA Publishing
2012
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/165853 |
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