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Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more has been obtained with relatively little increase in...
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Water and land grabbing is often an indication of growing control by an elite group over natural resources for agricultural production, marginalising their previous users. It may drive and exacerbate social, economic and political disparities and so increase the potential for conflict. In...
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Groundwater is essential for human life, especially during drought. California is one of the highest consumers of groundwater and has depleted significant amounts during the past decade. This paper tries to analyze the reasons behind the depletion of this water reservoir, particularly the ones...
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efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … irrigation in the U.S. comes from off-farm supplies, improvements in delivery and conveyance efficiency also have the potential … to significantly reduce water losses. This study utilizes survey data from irrigation water delivery organizations in the …
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irrigation in modulating these effects. Utilizing a newly assembled global geospatial data set that combines information on … presence of irrigation infrastructure effectively mitigates both the direct negative impacts and the negative spatial spillover … considering spatial dynamics and irrigation in understanding the effects of water scarcity on economic activity, providing …
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.V.K Sivamohan and Nitin Bassi -- 2. Key issues in Indian irrigation / M. Dinesh Kumar, A. Narayanamoorthy and M.V.K. Sivamohan -- 3 … developing economies / Zankhana Shah -- 5. Sector reforms and efficiency improvement : pointers for canal irrigation management …
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Water shortage is one of the major environmental challenges in emerging Asian economies such as India and the People's Republic of China (PRC), presenting significant threats to livelihood and food security in coming decades. The growing population, increasing demand for food, rapid...
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