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Water policy experts contend that the United States is heading toward a water scarcity crisis in the coming years. Global climate change is likely to make water scarcity much worse in the long run. This article argues that demands of current and projected water management challenges can best be...
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irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the allocated water are major reasons behind this paradox. Water guzzler … irrigation water available in the country. Hence if sustainable agriculture water-use has to be ensured, economics (productivity … profitability can be achieved with lesser amounts of irrigation water. This is what is attempted in this paper. The study shows that …
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Agricultural water stress is a critical problem undermining socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability …
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fee decided by water supplier side. However, diverse functions are being desired to irrigation facilities in recent years … environment as typical examples. Thus agricultural water supply should be regarded as irrigation services and it is needed to … irrigation services, on it, grasp the agricultural conditions quantitatively from an economic viewpoint by such as estimation of …
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We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized rural households of north-western Bangladesh using a quasi-experimental analysis. A government organization - the Barindra Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) - established...
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, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …
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This paper attempts to project the likely impact of robust monsoon rains of 2013 on the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in India. The model hypothesizes that the performance of agriculture in India depends upon (1) investments in agriculture (private and public); (2)...
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Watershed development in India has gained momentum with a variety of agencies trying approaches to technology, costs and subsidies, and institutional arrangements. The Watershed Development Programme has three important features: Unprecedented devolution of decision-making power backed up by...
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, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …
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. This paper briefly reviews the current issues in irrigation water pricing, presents an analytical framework for determining … economic value of irrigation water using both the direct and indirect techniques, and the results of a case study of a large …-scale irrigation project located in the Northern Plains of Thailand. The contingent valuation method has been used for measuring farmer …
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