Towards Better Management of Ground Water Resources in India B.M.Jha‚ Chairman & S.K.Sinha‚ Scientist D Central Ground Water Board Bhujal Bhawan‚ CGO Complex‚ NH IV‚ Faridabad- 121 001‚ Haryana‚ India. e-mail: chmn-cgwb@nic.in Abstract Groundwater is the most preferred source of water in various user sectors in India on account of its near universal availability‚ dependability and low capital cost. The increasing dependence on ground water as a reliable source of water has resulted in indiscriminate
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almost follows the pre-monsoon trends. The spatially distributed groundwater recharge from 1996 to 2011 indicated that average recharge is about 1.6 m in the area (fig. 4a) and that range from 0.01 m to 18 m. The groundwater recharge in the central part of the Bariley district is 2.5 -3.5 m and in the foot hills of Ninatal district is range from 3-19 m. The groundwater recharge in the 80% of area is range from 1-2
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Publishing Partners AGI gratefully acknowledges the following organizations’ support for the Living with Karst booklet and poster. To order‚ contact AGI at www.agiweb.org or (703) 379-2480. National Speleological Society (with support from the National Speleological Foundation and the Richmond Area Speleological Society) American Cave Conservation Association (with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and a Section 319(h) Nonpoint Source Grant from the U.S. Environmental
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I’m sure that you think that groundwater is kind of like an underground river or lake. If you do your somewhat right but that not just quit it. Only in caves or near lava flow does the underground rivers and lakes occur. Instead ground water is usually held within pours of soil or rock material. An good example to show how the water is held is to fill a sponge with water that is kind of the way that ground water is held in these underground materials. Groundwater is very beneficial to human life
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Groundwater and Surface water Pollution Surface waters are the natural resources of the Earth‚ which are found on the exteriors of the land. Ground water is water that comes from the ground‚ which comes from rain‚ snow and sleet. These types of waters can become polluted in a numbers of ways and come from a number of varied sources. All types of water pollution are harmful to the health of humans and animals. It may not affect or damage our health immediately but can be harmful after long term
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WATER STEWARDSHIP INFORMATION SERIES Hardness in Groundwater February 2007 What is water hardness? Water hardness is primarily the amount of calcium and magnesium‚ and to a lesser extent‚ iron in the water. Water hardness is measured by adding up the concentrations of calcium‚ magnesium and converting this value to an equivalent concentration of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) in milligrams per litre (mg/L) of water. The Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality Hardness divide hardness
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Groundwater Use and Overuse The biggest reservoir of fresh‚ liquid water on earth is groundwater. There is more than 20 times as much water stored within the ground as in all the lakes and rivers combined. In many parts of the world‚ agricultural‚ industrial‚ and domestic water demands can only be met by pumping water out of the ground. As you’ll see in the diagram below‚ wells work only if they penetrate the water table - the name given to the subsurface boundary that separates saturated and
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• • September 2004 • • October 2004 • • • February 2005 • • April 2005 • • May 2005 • • Ordered by Indian court to stop drawing groundwater for its bottling plant in Plachimada‚ Kerala Judge ruled that no power to allow a private party to extract such a huge quantity of groundwater Protesters claim that Coke water use was reducing agricultural yields Coke cited lack of rainfall‚ not their operations‚ as cause of crop declines Parliamentary committee
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waste on the nearby open ground for many years resulting in groundwater contamination. As the companies focused only on increasing the shareholder value by reducing the operational costs‚ they overlooked environmental health and safety regulations regarding toxic waste disposal. If companies would have followed the safe toxic waste disposal practices‚ it would have prevented tragic deaths of city residents‚ various illnesses‚ and groundwater contamination. We can see that safe practices would have
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RAIN WATER HARVESTING AND ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE TO GROUND WATER WHAT IS RAIN WATER HARVESTING : The principle of collecting and using precipitation from a catchments surface. An old technology is gaining popularity in a new way. Rain water harvesting is enjoying a renaissance of sorts in the world‚ but it traces its history to biblical times. Extensive rain water harvesting apparatus existed 4000 years ago in the Palestine and Greece. In ancient Rome‚ residences were built with individual
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