India - Confronting the groundwater management challenge in the Deccan traps country of Maharashtra (English)

The drought-prone interior of Maharashtra state is especially dependent on groundwater resources for both rural drinking water-supply and for subsistence and commercial irrigated agriculture. Despite generally very limited potential these resources are very intensively exploited, but such development has encountered significant problems. This Case Profile summarizes the progress of, and the groundwater management approach developed for, the MRWSSP...

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Foster, Stephen;

Garduno, Hector;

Tuinhof, Alber;
Document Date
2007/09/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
44361
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
India,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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India - Confronting the groundwater management challenge in the Deccan traps country of Maharashtra
Keywords
groundwater body

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Foster, Stephen; Garduno, Hector; Tuinhof, Alber.

India - Confronting the groundwater management challenge in the Deccan traps country of Maharashtra (English). GW MATE case profile collection ; no. 18 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/524791468051855064

India - Confronting the groundwater management challenge in the Deccan traps country of Maharashtra (English)

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