Is shrinking groundwater resources leading to socioeconomic and environmental degradation in Central Ganga Plain, India?

In India, agriculture is a source of livelihood for over 64 % of the country's population. Indo-Gangetic Plains of North India support good cultivation and provides livelihood to several hundred million people. The climatic change studies have documented changes in precipitation pattern which c...

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Published in:	Arabian journal of geosciences Vol. 7; no. 10; pp. 4377 - 4385
Main Authors:	Ahmed, Izrar, Al-Othman, Abdulaziz A., Umar, Rashid
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01-10-2014
Subjects:	Earth and Environmental Science Earth Sciences Original Paper Central Gangetic Plain Socioeconomic impact Rainfall pattern Groundwater depletion
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