Is There A Dark Side To Solar-Powered Irrigation Pumps?

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Is There A Dark Side To Solar-Powered Irrigation Pumps?
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was installed in his field with the help of the Government of Tripuras subsidised policy in Gokulnagar, Agartala. Tripura, India . Thousands of farmers in Africa and Asia have been using solar power to pump irrigation water — but researchers warn they could also cause an increase in aquifer depletion and carbon emissions.of annual national total emissions, so replacing electric or diesel pumps with solar ones was thought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Balasubramanya explains that investments in solar pumps should go hand in hand with investments in measuring and managing the risks of groundwater depletion. "In the India that I grew up in, no one around me could help me understand how one became an archaeologist, or a volcanologist – India has NO volcanoes!" she says,"both areas of study meant meagre job prospects. And being a middle-class Indian kid, that was not an option."

"What I wanted to do was work on issues of the environment as they affect the poor, which still seemed unclear, but fortuitously, I had an opportunity to be involved in a primary data collection activity for a World Bank project that was evaluating the effects of community forest management programs on deforestation and livelihood generation in one of the poorest parts of India," she says.

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