Climatic Change and Groundwater: India?s Opportunities for Mitigation and Adaptation
For millennia, India has been using surface storages and gravity flow to irrigate its crops. During the last 40 years, however, India has witnessed a decline in gravity flow irrigation and the rise of a booming ?water-scavenging? irrigation economy through millions of small, private tube wells. For...
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| Formato: | Conference Paper |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38196 |
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