Incentivizing Farmers in Punjab, India, To Save Electricity and Water

Climate change is likely to exacerbate this pressure on water resources in India, even as the frequency and intensity on floods and droughts in the country increases. The World Bank is engaged in different aspects of water resource management and the supply of drinking water and sanitation services across the country. In the agrarian state of Punjab in India, where rampant tubewell irrigation is causing the groundwater table to fall drastically, the World Bank helped the state government pilot an innovative scheme to conserve groundwater. Learn more: www.worldbank.org/en/country/...
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