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100 _aBandyopadhyay, Jayanta
245 _aWater systems management in South Asia: need for a research framework
260 _c2007
300 _ap.863-74.
362 _a10 Mar
520 _aGiven its population density and poverty, on the one hand, and rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, on the other, south Asia seems to be facing an incipient water crisis not due to water shortage but intergovernmental conflicts. The knowledge base needed to research water systems management and deal with these conflicts has been neglected by countries in the region and only a trans-disciplinary approach, including the engineering and medical sciences along with social, political and economic expertise, will help in poverty alleviation and development. - Reproduced.
650 _aWater resources management - South Asia
650 _aWater resources management
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
908 _aN
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999 _c73412
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