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Taming the anarchy : groundwater governance in South Asia / Tushaar Shah.

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"In 1947, British India - the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh - emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Shah, Tushaar
Corporate Author: Resources for the Future
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Colombo, Sri Lanka : Resources for the Future ; International Water Management Institute, ©2009.
Subjects:
Groundwater > Government policy > South Asia.
Irrigation > South Asia > Management.
Groundwater > Government policy.
Irrigation > Management.
South Asia.
Table of Contents:
  • The hydraulic past : irrigation and state formation
  • Rise of the colossus
  • The future of flow irrigation
  • Wells and welfare
  • Diminishing returns?
  • Aquifers and institutions
  • Can the anarchy be tamed?
  • Thriving in anarchy.

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