Solar pumps and South Asia’s energy-groundwater nexus: exploring implications and reimagining its future

South Asia’s groundwater economy stands at the threshold of a revolution in adoption of solar irrigation pumps (SIPs). This has potential to unlock the region’s perverse energy-groundwater nexus. In much of South Asia, the price of energy used in irrigation, the only surrogate for water price, fails...

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Main Authors: Tushaar Shah, Abhishek Rajan, Gyan Prakash Rai, Shilp Verma, Neha Durga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2018-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae53f