Wells for welfare or "illfare"? Cost of groundwater depletion in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Water Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 391-407

  Palanisami, K ^a   Vidhyavathi, A ^a   Ranganathan, C R ^a  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bore well; Energy consumption; Externalities; Groundwater depletion; Irrigation cost; Open well; Well failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749098508     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2008.150     Document Type: Article

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