All Paths Lead to Rain: Explaining why Watershed Development in India Does Not Alleviate the Experience of Water Scarcity

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1209-1225

  Bharucha, Zareen Pervez ^a   Smith, David ^a   Pretty, Jules ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRIGATION; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE; WATERSHED;

INDIA;

EID: 84907590006     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2014.928699     Document Type: Article

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