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["Andy Bullock" <<address removed>>]

I am glad that Charles Batchelor and Ian Calder are engaged in this
consultation as they certainly know more about the details of the
sustainability of groundwater in agriculture than myself. They have also
usefully reminded me not to make the mistake of making the very kind of
generalisation that I was suggesting should be avoided!

Noting their important correction on groundwater in parts of India, I feel
it would be useful if they could give some sense of the wider opportunity to
exploit groundwater in small-scale food production, given the concerns that
a) river-flow only assessments of water availability point to stress in many
countries, and b) oft-mentioned concerns about groundwater aquifers being
over-exploited.

The point being the introductory concern raised about water availability
being a constraint to agriculture (significantly, because this is implied in
DFID's latest Water Action Plan), and my attempt to clarify that, in many
instances, it is not a constraint to household food security when one looks
at water availability outside of rivers.


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