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Chasing a mirage: Water harvesting and artificial recharge in naturally water-scarce regions [1]

The analysis presented in this paper shows that in water-scarce regions of India, run-off harvesting does not offer any potential for groundwater recharge or improving water supplies at the basin scale. The issues are many: (1) Water harvesting in the

Publication Date: 
30/08/2008
M Dinesh Kumar [2], Ankit Patel [3], R Ravindranath & et al [4]
Economic and Political Weekly [5]
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Tags:
Water Resources [6], Groundwater Recharge [7], Water Conservation [8], Water Harvesting [9], Percolation Pond [10], Hydrology [11], CSE [12], Anil Agarwal [13], Gujarat [14], Maharashtra [15], Statistics [16]

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