The over-exploitation of ground water has become an acute problem in the agriculturally important states e.g. Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Over-exploitation of ground water ...

Hydrological perspective of small islands is low and scarce. All the atolls of Lakshadweep islands and more than five hundred islets/islands of Andaman and Nicobar islands are of the group of small and low islands. The ...

A scavenger well system, essentially a skimming well system designed to pump fresh water from a fresh-saline aquifer, consists of two pumping wells located side by side. One of the wells taps the freshwater zone and the ...

Agriculture sector is the major consumer of water. The water for agricultural activities is supplied either by surface water or ground water. Use of ground water is convenient as compared to surface water. In the present ...

In spite of copious rainfall, complex geology and hydrogeology are mainly responsible for the formation of un-ubiquitous potential groundwater reservoirs in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Dearth of good catchment is ...

This paper is intended as a contribution to the on-going discussion on the development of a framework for appropriate and effective groundwater resources management taking account of the main groundwater settings occurring ...

Since long, groundwater has received preference over surface water as source of irrigation as well as for use in domestic and industrial sector, due to several distinct features, like dependability on supply, wide aerial ...

Haryana has only 1.4% of India's geographical area, yet it is the second largest contributor to the central food grains pool. Practically every single inch of the cultivable land is sown, and 84% area is irrigated. Safe ...

Unplanned rapid urban agglomeration, industrial growth combined with intensive irrigation, groundwater over-exploitation and disruption of natural groundwater recharge courses led to depletion of groundwater recharge. ...

Kavaratty is a small tropical island of Lakshadweep archipelago in the Arabian Sea with an area of about 3.63 sq.km and supports a groundwater dependent ecosystem. Even though the island receives an annual rainfall of about ...