00810pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002400040245006100064260000900125300001200134362001000146520041500156650001600571650001600587650001500603773003400618180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPrasad, G.S. Ganesh  aWater markets: public resource and private appropriation  c2002  ap.28-29  a5 jan  aThe emergence of water markets has been a consequence of the popular use of groundwater and now increasingly surface water resources for irrigation.  But as this paper explains, while this may have helped raise agricultural output, it has also seen a widening of rural inequalities and has had an adverse impact on the interests of small and marginal farmers and other weaker sections of society. - Reproduced.  aAgriculture  aGroundwater  aIrrigation  aEconomic and Political Weekly