Sustainable groundwater management in India needs a water-energy-food nexus approach

Mukherji, Aditi

Sustainable groundwater management in India needs a water-energy-food nexus approach

2022

Mukherji, Aditi

Groundwater depletion in India is a result of water, energy, and food policies that have given rise to a nexus where growth in agriculture has been supported by unsustainable trends in water and energy use. This nexus emanates from India’s policy of providing affordable calories to its large population. This requires that input prices are kept low, leading to perverse incentives that encourage groundwater overexploitation. The paper argues that solutions to India’s groundwater problems need to be embedded within the current context of its water-energy-food nexus. Examples are provided of changes underway in some water-energy-food policies that may halt further groundwater depletion.

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Publié dans

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Volume 44 Numéro 1 ISSN 2040-5790

Editeur

Wiley

D'autres materias

Nexus; Groundwater depletion

Langue

anglais

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Open Access, CC-BY-4.0

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Journal Article

Source

Mukherji, Aditi. 2022. Sustainable groundwater management in India needs a water-energy-food nexus approach. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 44(1):394-410. (Special issue: CWAE 40th Anniversary) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13123]

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