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Public Provision and Protection of Natural Resources: Groundwater Irrigation in Rural India

Author(s) -

Sheetal Sekhri

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.3.4.29

Subject(s) - groundwater , exploit , aquifer , water resource management , business , irrigation , environmental planning , natural resource economics , water supply , natural resource , geography , environmental resource management , environmental science , economics , political science , engineering , environmental engineering , computer science , ecology , geotechnical engineering , computer security , law , biology

This paper evaluates the effects of a public groundwater provision program on water tables in Northern India. I theorize that public provision leads to sustainable use of groundwater when the fixed costs for private well provision are high. I use village-level longitudinal data on aquifers and wells, and exploit the physical and technological limitations of surface pumps that generate a cost difference at a specific water depth to test this model. My findings suggest that public provision can be used as an alternative in scenarios where prohibitive monitoring costs might preclude the use of other regulatory approaches to prevent over-extraction. (JEL O13, O18, Q15, Q25, Q28, Q53, Q58)

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