29-Institutional framework of Managing Ground Water in a Water Stressed Region.

Abstract

Groundwater utilization has medium and long-term impacts, which affect the future availability and access to the resource. To address the multidimensional requirement of ground water, institutional organizations have an important role to play. As the present world is becoming more concerned with sustainable and environmentally sound water management, the issue of groundwater quality and other environmental consequences due to groundwater overdraft, a conceptual model of the institution that would be needed to incorporate the participatory approach involving decision-makers, planners, implementing bodies and direct beneficiaries in groundwater management has been suggested in the present paper.