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Water–food–energy nexus with changing agricultural scenarios in India during recent decades
Beas Barik
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, Mumbai – 400 076, India
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, Mumbai – 400 076, India
Interdisciplinary Program in
Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai – 400 076, India
A. Saheer Sahana
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, Mumbai – 400 076, India
Amey Pathak
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, Mumbai – 400 076, India
Muddu Sekhar
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, India
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The article summarises changing patterns of the water-food-energy nexus in India during recent decades. The work first analyses satellite data of water storage with a validation using the observed well data. Northern India shows a declining trend of water storage and western-central India shows an increasing trend of the same. Major droughts result in a drop in water storage which is not recovered due to uncontrolled ground water irrigation for agricultural activities even in good monsoon years.
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