Western Yamuna Canal (WJC) Command covers part of the Upper Yamuna Basin and inland alluvial basin in the State of Haryana. The WJC Command of an area about 13,543 sq. km, covers eastern, central and southern parts of the ...

Tamil Nadu is an agrarian State and in the absence of any perennial river, ground water is used for agricultural purposes. Over-exploitation of ground water has led to rise in OE and critical blocks and is mainly attributed ...

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 ...

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 ...

West Bengal and Orissa are two such states in India having vast alluvial aquifers deposited in the deltas along the coastal plains and in the doabs of the inland river valleys. In comparison to West Bengal, extensive areas ...

For sustainable use of available groundwater resources the groundwater ownership laws are incessantly evolving over the last century. One of the five "rules", the Absolute Dominion rule, the Reasonable Use rule, the ...

In India water consumption is increasing day by day. It has been estimated that there can be a shortage of about 450 cubic kilometres of water by the year 2050 A.D. Hence, an efficient use of ground water has to be insisted. ...