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Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia

Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia

Shah, Tushaar

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EconomicsReal Estate

ISBN10: 1933115602
ISBN13: 9781933115603
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2008
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube-wells that are drawing groundwater without permits or hindrances. Taming the Anarchy is about the development of this chaos and the prospects to bring it under control. It is about both the massive benefit that the irrigation economy has created and the ill-fare it threatens through depleted aquifers and pollution. Tushaar Shah brings exceptional insight into a socio-ecological phenomenon that has befuddled scientists and policymakers alike. In systematic fashion, he investigates the forces behind the transformation of South Asian irrigation and considers its social, economic, and ecological impacts.

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