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Climate change and water supplies: Options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India [1]

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Climate change will affect water supplies in south Asia, where high-intensity floods and droughts are expected in the future. Increasing water storage is a key adaptation strategy, and the experience of irrigation tanks illustrates both the potential and challenges of this adaptation response.

Publication Date: 
26/06/2010
Mark Giordano [2], K Palanisami [3], Ruth Meinzen Dick [4]
Economic and Political Weekly [5]
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Forests [6], Agriculture [7], Water Resources [8], Percolation Pond [9], Tank Irrigation [10], Canal Irrigation [11], Groundwater Irrigation [12], Sedimentation [13], Climate Change [14], Farmers [15], India [16], Andhra Pradesh [17], Karnataka [18], Tamil Nadu [19], Economic and Political Weekly [5], South Asia [20], Mark Giordano [2], K Palanisami [3], Ruth Meinzen Dick [4]

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