India should know better - ...
Published by Sean Furey, Water & Sanitation Specialist at Skat Consulting
India should know better - the government energy subsidies for pumping has caused widespread groundwater depletion. I recently spoke to a researcher at IWMI who is seeing a similar trend starting to happen in some parts of Ethiopia. Solar pumping has advantages, but it risks moving the problem to one of water resources - better groundwater research, data and regulation is essential, e.g. through the UPGro and REACH programmes.
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I agree.
Published by Nitin Bassi, Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy (IRAP) - Senior Researcher