{"id":255258,"date":"2023-08-08T20:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=255258"},"modified":"2023-08-08T20:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:52:27","slug":"steps-taken-for-sustainable-groundwater-management-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/steps-taken-for-sustainable-groundwater-management-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps taken for sustainable groundwater management in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u2018<\/b><b>S<\/b><b>teps taken for sustainable groundwater management in the country\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <strong>PIB<\/strong><\/span><b>\u00a0on 8th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister of State for Jal Shakti has informed Lok Sabha about the steps taken for sustainable groundwater management in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Groundwater Level in the country:<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Ground Water Board(CGWB) periodically monitors groundwater levels throughout the Country on a regional scale, through a network of monitoring wells.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysis of water level data collected by CGWB during November 2022 in comparison with the decadal mean of November (2012-2021) has revealed that about 61.1% of the wells monitored have registered rise in ground water level whereas about 38.9 % wells have registered fall in water level.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Steps taken for sustainable groundwater management in the country:<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-aquifer-mapping-and-management-programmenaquim\/\"><b>National Aquifer Mapping and Management (NAQUIM) programme\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Master Plan for Artificial Recharge to Groundwater &#8211; 2020 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been prepared with respective State counterparts.The master plan includes artificial recharge in both rural and urban areas including water scarce cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was launched in 2019 in water stressed blocks of 256 districts in the country with the primary aim to effectively harvest the monsoon rainfall through creation of artificial recharge structures, watershed management, recharge and reuse structures, intensive afforestation and awareness generation etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Further, to emphasize the importance of sustainability of groundwater for drinking water supply schemes, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jal-shakti-abhiyan-catch-the-rain-campaign\/#:~:text=The%20Catch%20the%20Rain%20Campaign%20will%20include%20certain%20key%20activities,rooftop%20RWHS%20and%20check%20dams.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain 2023<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is targeting \u201cSource sustainability for drinking water\u201d for source strengthening\/ sources stabilization of rural drinking water supply schemes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-atal-bhujal-yojana-why-a-scheme-for-groundwater\/\"><b>Atal Bhujal Yojana<\/b><\/a><b>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was launched in collaboration with States in certain water stressed areas of Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The primary aim of the scheme is demand side management through scientific means involving the local communities at village levels leading to sustainable groundwater management in the targeted areas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u2018Steps taken for sustainable groundwater management in the country\u201d\u00a0 published in PIB\u00a0on 8th August 2023. What is the News? Minister of State for Jal Shakti has informed Lok Sabha about the steps taken for sustainable groundwater management in the country. Groundwater Level in the country: The Central&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/steps-taken-for-sustainable-groundwater-management-in-the-country\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steps taken for sustainable groundwater management in the country<\/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":[1566,956,11209,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-255258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-geography-in-news","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255258","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=255258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}