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Tushaar Shah: Taming the anarchy: groundwater governance in South Asia

A co-publication of Resources for the Future, Washington DC, and International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2009, 310 pp., Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-933-115-60-3

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  1. Four to seven percent of the land in the command area of canal irrigation systems is used up by the canal network itself.

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    Jacob W. Kijne

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Kijne, J.W. Tushaar Shah: Taming the anarchy: groundwater governance in South Asia. Irrig Sci 28, 281–284 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00271-009-0194-8

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