{"id":214793,"date":"2022-11-17T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=214793"},"modified":"2022-11-17T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:14:13","slug":"answered-provide-a-general-account-of-groundwater-usage-in-india-what-measures-are-required-to-conserve-groundwater","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-provide-a-general-account-of-groundwater-usage-in-india-what-measures-are-required-to-conserve-groundwater\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Provide a general account of groundwater usage in India. What measures are required to conserve groundwater?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"616\"><strong>Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Contextual introduction.<br \/>\n<strong>Body:\u00a0<\/strong>Write about groundwater usage in India. Also write some measures required to conserve groundwater.<br \/>\n<strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: Write a way forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>India is the <strong>largest user of Groundwater<\/strong> (GW) and 87% of GW is used for Irrigation. Recently the Ministry of Jal Shakti released the \u201c<strong>Dynamic Ground Water Resource Assessment Report<\/strong>\u201d for the entire country for the year 2022. The assessment was carried out <strong>jointly by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and States\/UTs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Groundwater usage in India:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2022 assessment suggests that groundwater extraction (16 bcm) is the <strong>lowest since 2004<\/strong>. A <strong>decrease in groundwater extraction<\/strong> may indicate better water management<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improvement in groundwater conditions<\/strong> in 909 assessment units in the country compared with 2017 assessment data.<\/li>\n<li>The total annual groundwater recharge for the entire country is 437.60 billion cubic meters (BCM).<\/li>\n<li>The groundwater extraction is <strong>very high<\/strong> in the states of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Dadra &amp; Nagar Haveli and Daman &amp; Diu where it is more than 100%.<\/li>\n<li>The groundwater extraction is between 60-100% in the states of Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and UTs of Chandigarh, Lakshadweep and Puducherry.<\/li>\n<li>In the rest of the states, the groundwater extraction is below 60%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Measures to conserve groundwater:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dedicated law:<\/strong> There is no central law governing the use of groundwater and various States have their own laws on regulating its extraction that are deployed in a perfunctory manner.<\/li>\n<li>A draft <strong>National Water Policy<\/strong> has recommended a shift in usage from water-guzzling crops and prioritising recycled over freshwater for industrial purposes.<\/li>\n<li>To improve the water table in those areas where it is being overused, on-farm water management techniques and <strong>improved irrigation methods<\/strong> should be adopted. E.g. Methods for artificial recharge of groundwater.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Traditional methods of water conservation<\/strong> should be encouraged to minimize the depletion of water resources. E.g water from house run off is an excellent source of irrigation.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>agricultural power-pricing structure<\/strong> needs to be revamped as the flat rate of electricity adversely affects the use of groundwater.<\/li>\n<li>There should be a policy in place to monitor the excessive exploitation of groundwater resources to ensure long-term sustainability. E.g. <strong>Water meters<\/strong> could be installed to monitor overuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Groundwater depletion is becoming an alarming issue day by day. Leveraging <strong>schemes like Atal Bhujal Yojana<\/strong> which seeks to strengthen the institutional framework and bring about behavioural changes at the community level for sustainable groundwater resource management is vital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction:\u00a0Contextual introduction. Body:\u00a0Write about groundwater usage in India. Also write some measures required to conserve groundwater. Conclusion: Write a way forward. India is the largest user of Groundwater (GW) and 87% of GW is used for Irrigation. Recently the Ministry of Jal Shakti released the \u201cDynamic Ground Water Resource Assessment Report\u201d for the entire country&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-provide-a-general-account-of-groundwater-usage-in-india-what-measures-are-required-to-conserve-groundwater\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Answered] Provide a general account of groundwater usage in India. What measures are required to conserve groundwater?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-214793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}