Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3041-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3041-2017
Research article
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26 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 26 Jun 2017

Water–food–energy nexus with changing agricultural scenarios in India during recent decades

Beas Barik, Subimal Ghosh, A. Saheer Sahana, Amey Pathak, and Muddu Sekhar

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The article summarises changing patterns of the water-food-energy nexus in India during recent decades. The work first analyses satellite data of water storage with a validation using the observed well data. Northern India shows a declining trend of water storage and western-central India shows an increasing trend of the same. Major droughts result in a drop in water storage which is not recovered due to uncontrolled ground water irrigation for agricultural activities even in good monsoon years.