Can improved agricultural water use efficiency save India's groundwater?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Fishman, Ram ^a   Devineni, Naresh ^b   Raman, Swaminathan ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NAVSARI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

agriculture; efficient technologies; India; irrigation; water resources

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION; FOOD SUPPLY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRRIGATION; SPRINKLER SYSTEMS (IRRIGATION); WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL WATER USE; EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY; FRESH WATER RESOURCES; INDIA; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; SPRINKLER IRRIGATION; TECHNICAL POTENTIAL; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

WATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURE; APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY; AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; WATER PLANNING; WATER TABLE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

INDIA;

EID: 84959428552     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084022     Document Type: Article

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