Download or read book Groundwater Governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins written by Aditi Mukherji and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the key features of agricultural development in the last five decades has been intensive groundwater use in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh) and in the Yellow River Basin (China). Groundwater irrigates almost 60% of the net irrigated area in South Asia and 70% in the north China plains. Groundwater use for agri