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Lush Fields and Parched Throats: The Political Economy of Groundwater in Gujarat

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  • Bela Bhatia

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Groundwater resources in Gujarat (India) have been depleting at an darning rate in recent years. The most visible symptom of this phenomenon is the decline of water tables in large pats of the state. The scarcity of groundwater is most severe during drought years, when even drinking water is often hard to obtain, but is not confined to those years. The depletion of groundwater resources in Gujarat cannot be explained by declining rainfall levels.

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  • Bela Bhatia, 1992. "Lush Fields and Parched Throats: The Political Economy of Groundwater in Gujarat," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1992-100, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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