Journal
WATER INTERNATIONAL
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 254-269Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2010.487931
Keywords
urban; informal; tanker; water market; India
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- Stanford Woods Institute of the Environment
- Teresa Heinz Environmental Scholars grant
- Stanford School of Earth Sciences
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Many developing world cities have seen the emergence of informal markets where private tanker truck operators transport water extracted from peri-urban wells to urban consumers. This study adopted a systems-modelling approach to analyzing the informal tanker market in India. The results indicate that the demand for tanker supply was caused by lack of groundwater availability in private wells as well as unreliable piped supply. The study shows that two groundwater factors are relevant: depth to water and aquifer productivity. Together, these could explain the difference in spatial, temporal and consumer-specific variations in tanker dependence.
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