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What is WENEXA?
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What is WENEXA?

The Water Energy Nexus Activity (WENEXA) is a bold initiative designed to address seemingly intractable problems whose roots lie at the intersection of India's water and energy sectors.

  • The Vicious Cycle: below cost electricity tariffs may have led to the overuse of water for irrigation, which in turn has produced dramatic declines in groundwater levels.
  • Water Quantity: The mining of ancient aquifers from inexpensive deep wells has a direct negative social impacts; water tables fall below levels that can be hand-pumped, and water that was once free is replaced by water that must be purchased from deep well owners.
  • Water Quality: Over-pumping causes a deterioration in the quality of the water being pumped, and in many areas, it is high in arsenic or other contaminants.


 

Resources

Presentation on AgDSM - Field Experience and Lessons Learned by Jim Hogan, Chief of Party, WENEXA Project ...
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