Water – Energy Nexus : Moving Beyond the Energy Debate
Water – Energy Nexus : Moving Beyond the Energy Debate
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水与能源的关系：超越能源争论
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2010
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S. Sinha
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S. Sinha
能源和水是农业生产的关键手段，它们之间的相互联系构成了重大的管理挑战。缺乏适当的能源政策和地下水管理政策不仅造成了地下水的过度开采，而且还造成了一种联系。作为能源政策的一部分，不正当的激励措施导致电力公用事业的绩效经济效率低下，对该国的能源经济和能源部门的生存能力造成严重破坏。分析地下水和抽水能源使用的增长与印度实现粮食安全的总体发展政策相吻合。然而，关于水与能源的关系作为地下水管理的间接办法的辩论大多集中在该关系的能源方面，忽视了农业政策的作用，特别是那些处理农产品市场联系差距的政策和最低支持价格的作用，这些政策对农民选择种植模式，从而过度使用地下水有更大的影响。农业和能源政策显然更多地受政治民粹主义的支配，而不是可持续资源开发的健全管理战略。这些政策的综合影响导致了水文上不可持续的地下水过度开采。在本文中，作者认为，有必要进一步讨论水能源关系，超越那些主要集中在能源政策的领域。
Energy and water are key instruments for agricultural production and their interlinkages pose significant management challenges. Lack of appropriate energy policy and policy to deal with management of groundwater has not only contributed to over-exploitation of groundwater; it has also resulted into a nexus. Perverse incentives provided as part of the energy policies have led to economic inefficiency in the performance of the electricity utilities, playing havoc with the energy economy of the country and viability of the energy sector. Analyzing the growth in use of groundwater and energy for pumping coincides with India’s overall development policy of attaining food security. However, much of the debate on waterenergy nexus as an indirect approach for groundwater management has focused on the energy side of the nexus, ignoring the role of agriculture policy, especially those dealing with gaps in market linkages for agricultural products and role of minimum support price, which have greater influence on farmer’s choice of cropping pattern and hence excessive groundwater use. Policies governing agriculture and energy are apparently dictated more by political populism rather than sound management strategies for sustainable resources development. Combined effect of these policies has resulted in the hydrological unsustainable over-exploitation of groundwater. In this paper, the authors argue that there is need to further the debate on water-energy nexus beyond the realms of those focused primarily on energy policies.