Reallocating water from canal irrigation for environmental flows: benefits forgone in the Upper Ganga Basin in India

This paper assesses the potential loss of irrigation benefits in reallocating water from irrigation to meet requirements for environmental flows (e-flows) in the Upper Ganga Basin (UGB) in northern India. The minimum requirement for e-flows in the UGB is 32 billion cubic meters (BCM), or 42 % of the...

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Autores principales: Amarasinghe, Upali A., Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Bharati, Luna, Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Springer 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34590

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