The government is planning to implement the Pilot Artificial Groundwater Recharge Project in Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n Launched by:<\/b> Ministry of Jal Shakti i<\/span>n collaboration with the Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n Location<\/b>: The project is being implemented in the doab of Araniyar and Korattailaiyar River in Tamil Nadu. <\/span><\/p>\n Note<\/strong>: Doab refers to the alluvial land between two converging rivers.<\/span><\/p>\n Process<\/b>: Under the project, the groundwater is being recharged using the treated water.<\/span><\/p>\n Significance:<\/b> In India or in any other country, direct recharge using treated water has not been taken up considering that groundwater is used for all purposes including drinking.<\/span><\/p>\n Hence, if this pilot project proves to be successful, the method is likely to be replicated in other parts of the country as well.<\/span><\/p>\n According to a 2018 estimate by Niti Aayog, 600 million people in India face high to extreme water stress and about 200,000 people die every year owing to inadequate access to safe water.<\/span><\/p>\n This water crisis is going to get worse as Niti Aayog has projected that by 2030, India\u2019s water demand will be twice the available supply.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Click Here to read <\/b>Composite Water Management Index by Niti Aayog<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>India to try groundwater recharge method to solve water problem<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Livemint <\/b>on<\/span> 19th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The government is planning to implement the Pilot Artificial Groundwater Recharge Project in Tamil Nadu. About Artificial Groundwater Recharge Project in Tamil Nadu Launched by: Ministry of Jal Shakti in collaboration with the Netherlands. Location: The project is being implemented in the doab of Araniyar and Korattailaiyar River in Tamil Nadu.… Continue reading India to try groundwater recharge method to solve water problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-180147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702997005},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Artificial Groundwater Recharge Project in Tamil Nadu<\/b><\/h5>\n
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