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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Perils, politics and prospects of groundwater in India -Manisha Shah & Bishwadeep Ghose

Perils, politics and prospects of groundwater in India -Manisha Shah & Bishwadeep Ghose

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published Published on Feb 6, 2020   modified Modified on Feb 6, 2020
-India Water Portal

How can India change the game on groundwater management to deal with its overexploited aquifers?.

After independence, India was largely food insecure but post Green Revolution around the 1970s, foodgrain production increased manifold consequently reducing food insecurity and poverty in the country, in spite of rapid population growth. Its ability to achieve targeted results was largely dependent on the explosion of groundwater abstraction mechanisms like tubewells. Groundwater development continued unfettered, especially with rise in rural electrification, and an increasing number of aquifers have now reached unsustainable levels of exploitation.

Currently, India is one of the largest exporters of agricultural produce and leads the global charts on virtual water export - most of which comes from groundwater. Now that India’s groundwater table is declining alarmingly across the country, a large number of demand and supply management strategies are being tried out but there are no mechanisms in place to regulate over 20 million wells.

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India Water Portal, 5 February, 2020, https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/perils-politics-and-prospects-groundwater-india


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