George H. Hargreaves, Zohrab Samani
MEASURED lysimeter evapotranspiration of Alta fescue grass (a cool season grass) is taken as an index of reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo). An equation is presented that estimates ETo from measured values of daily or mean values of maximum and minimum temperature. This equation is compared wit...
D.G. Kinniburgh, Pauline Smedley
A survey of well waters (n=3534) from throughout Bang- ' ladesh, excluding the Chitt;agong Hill Tracts, has shown that water from 27% of the 'shallow' tubewells, that is wells less than 150 m deep, exceeded the Bangladesh standard for arsenic in drinking water (50 flg L -I). 46% exceeded the WH...
Laura McCann, Bonnie G. Colby, Κ. William Easter, Alexander Kasterine et al.
A.V. Manjunatha, Asif Reza Anik, Stijn Speelman, E.A. Nuppenau
Tushaar Shah, Aditi Deb Roy, Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Jinxia Wang
This article suggests that Asia’s groundwater socio‐ecology is at an impasse. Rapid growth in groundwater irrigation in South Asia and the North China plains during the period 1970–95 has been the main driver of the agrarian boom in these regions. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China account for th...
Malgosia Madajewicz, Alexander Pfaff, Alexander van Geen, Joseph H. Graziano et al.
Tushaar Shah
"In 1947, British India - the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh - emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved mill...
David Benson, Animesh K. Gain, Josselin Rouillard
Nexus thinking, in the form of integrating water security with agriculture, energy and climate concerns, is normatively argued to help better transition societies towards greener economies and the wider goal of sustainable development. Yet several issues emerge from the current debate surrounding th...
Shardul Agrawala, Tomoko Ota, Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, Maarten van Aalst et al.
This document is an output from the OECD Development and Climate Change project, an activity jointly overseen by the EPOC Working Party on Global and Structural Policies (WPGSP), and the DAC Network on Environment and Development Co-operation (ENVIRONET). The overall objective of the project is to p...
Mohammad Shamsudduha, Richard E. Chandler, Richard G. Taylor, Kazi Matin Ahmed
Abstract. Groundwater levels in shallow aquifers underlying Asian mega-deltas are characterized by strong seasonal variations associated with monsoon rainfall. To resolve trend and seasonal components in weekly groundwater levels in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Delta, we apply a nonparametric...
Mohammad Alauddin, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker
Khorshed Alam
Shamsuddin Shahid, Manzul Kumar Hazarika
Manoj Roy
M. A. Hoque, M. Mozzammel Hoque, Kazi Matin Ahmed