Shama Perveen

India’s deepening water crisis : A report by Columbia University Water Center and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (2012)

This report is based on the preliminary survey of 27 water intensive industrial sectors and its impacts related to water climate risks

Mayuri Ghosh

Romit Sen

Posted on 11 Nov, 2012 11:25 AM

This report is by the Columbia University Water Center and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Water as the hidden export: Exploring the concept of virtual water for growing intensive commercial crops in water scarce areas

"Water: the hidden export", is a report by Shama Perveen, written in August 2004, on the concept of virtual water. The author argues that this concept must be seriously considered in India, because when water intensive commercial crops are grown in water scarce areas and the produce exported, it amounts to a virtual export of water, even as water availability in the home country becomes scarcer.

Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 10:51 AM

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