2-Groundwater Aspects of Inter-Basin Water Transfer.

Abstract

Various implications of the inter-basin water transfer in respect of the groundwater systems of the donor and the receiving basins are discussed. Unless groundwater withdrawal patterns in the donor and the receiving basins are appropriately modified, the inter-basin transfer shall disturb the dynamic equilibrium of groundwater system of the basins. The socio-economic-environmental-technical implications of such modification in the withdrawal pattern can he quantified by groundwater modeling. These must he considered while determining the feasibility of a trial inter-basin transfer pattern.