Groundwater and Markets with Dr Soumya Balasubramanya
Do farmers share and sell groundwater to each other informally? Can you price water for farmers? How does new technology get adopted in agriculture? Does solar irrigation make sense for India?
Dr Soumya Balasubramanya has a wide-ranging discussion with host Veena Srinivasan on the second episode of Season 2 of the Water Data Podcast.
Dr Soumya Balasubramanya is a senior economist with the World Bank, and previously a Senior Researcher in Environment and Development Economics at the International Water Management Institute-CGIAR. Soumya has worked extensively on analysing informal groundwater markets in South Asia, on irrigation and solar-powered irrigation, on pricing, and on evaluating water quality interventions in Arsenic-polluted waters.
This episode is co-hosted by Pavan Srinath, Managing Partner at WELL Labs.
Suggested Readings:
- Soumya Balasubramanya’s personal website.
- Soumya and Veena on a World Water Week panel on managing over-exploited groundwater systems. [video]
- Minor Irrigation Census.
- Groundwater pricing in agriculture in South Asia: research for practical policymaking. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. (Draft)
- Groundwater use in agriculture in South Asia: the role of technology. Agricultural Economics. (Draft)
- A systems perspective on water markets: barriers, bright spots, and building blocks for the next generation. Environmental Research Letters.
- Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India. Environmental Research Letters.
- Can cash incentives modify groundwater pumping behaviors? Evidence from an experiment in Punjab. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
- Electric pumps, groundwater, agriculture, and water buyers: evidence from West Bengal. Journal of Development Studies.
- Groundwater arsenic in Bangladesh: what’s new for policy research? Water Policy.
- Evolution of households’ responses to the groundwater arsenic crisis in Bangladesh: information on environmental health risks can have increasing behavioral impact over time. Environment and Development Economics.
- Impact of a randomized controlled trial in arsenic risk communication on household water-source choices in Bangladesh. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
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Recording by Pavan Srinath
Video editing by Nabina Chakraborty
Graphics and artwork by Aparna Nambiar
Audio mixing and mastering by Vijay Doiphode
Podcast production and management by Nabina Chakraborty and Pavan Srinath
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