DEPLETING GROUND WATER: A CHALLENGE FOR REGULATORS AND HYDROGEOLOGIST
Keywords:
Ground water, Hydrogeologist.Abstract
Groundwater is one of the most significant water sources in India accounting for 63 per cent of all irrigation water and over 80 per cent of the rural and urban domestic water supplies. United Nations ducational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Water Development Report states that India is the largest extractor of groundwater in the zorld. India is a groundwater economy. At 260 cubic km per year, our country is the highest user of groundwater in the world - we use 25 percent of all groundwater extracted globally, ahead of USA and China. Fifty-four percent of India's groundwater wells have deteriorated over the past seven years and 21 major cities are expected to run out of groundwater by 2020. Thus, India faces a dual challenge: to regulate the rising demand for groundwater while refilling its sources. The vast majorities of groundwater pumps is unmetered, thus it creates excessive withdrawal of groundwater. Groundwater is the largest liquid freshwater resource of the Earth. It plays a crucial role in human fuel and global food security by supporting irrigated agriculture. At present, India is undergoing a "groundwater drought".References
CGWA guidelines and Gazette of India Dec 2018, Documents procured through RTI Acts, EPA 1986.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright Notice
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher. The Editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication.
Copyrights for articles published in World Scholars journals are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.
