relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/6175/
title: Economic implications of groundwater exploitation in hard rock areas of southern peninsular India
creator: Anantha, K H
subject: Watershed Management
description: The present paper analyses the consequences of groundwater exploitation by  using field-level data collected from two distinct well irrigated areas of Karnataka. The  study results show that the consequences arising out of groundwater overexploitation are  severe in high well interference area compared to low well interference area. The burden of  well failure is more or less equally shared by all categories of farmers but small farmers are  the worst victims of resource scarcity. As a result, overexploitation of groundwater has  different impacts on different categories of farmers in terms of access to groundwater, cost  and returns to groundwater irrigation and its negative externality cost. The study suggests  maintaining inter-well distance to prevent resource mining and calls for supply and  demand side interventions. The institutional reform is necessary to restore surface water  bodies to facilitate aquifer recharge.
publisher: Springer Netherlands
date: 2013
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/6175/1/EDS_15_587-606_2013.pdf
identifier:   Anantha, K H  (2013) Economic implications of groundwater exploitation in hard rock areas of southern peninsular India.  Environment, Development and Sustainability, 15 (3).  pp. 587-606.  ISSN 1573-2975     
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-012-9394-0