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Water and Sanitation | Greening of barren lands – the traditional way -Basant Yadav, Nitesh Patidar, Anupma Sharma, Niranjan Panigrahi, Rakesh K Sharma, V. Loganathan, Gopal Krishan, Jaswant Singh, Suraj Kumar and Alison Parker

Greening of barren lands – the traditional way -Basant Yadav, Nitesh Patidar, Anupma Sharma, Niranjan Panigrahi, Rakesh K Sharma, V. Loganathan, Gopal Krishan, Jaswant Singh, Suraj Kumar and Alison Parker

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published Published on Jul 11, 2022   modified Modified on Jul 15, 2022

-IndiaWaterPortal.org

The Chauka system, the traditional water harvesting system of Rajasthan can not only provide a sustainable way to manage water resources in water stressed regions, but also support livelihoods through development of pastures.

Over 55 percent of India’s population relies on groundwater for irrigation, water for cattle, domestic consumption, and industrial use making India the world’s greatest groundwater extractor, surpassing the USA and China combined.

This paper titled 'Assessment of traditional rainwater harvesting system in barren lands of a semi-arid region: A case study of Rajasthan (India)' published in the Journal of Hydrology, Regional Studies informs that as high as 16 percent of the aquifers in India are overexploited and an additional 3 percent are in a critical state. The declines in water levels are severe with rates of 1–2 m year-1 since 2000. These have not only affected small-scale farming, but also led to deterioration of groundwater quality in many locations.

Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR), or Artificial Recharge, has emerged as a solution to deal with this situation since the 1960s that has been supported by governmental and civil institutions and included in the central government policies on groundwater management since the 1990s. While rainwater harvesting is not new to India, MAR takes it further by helping to store a portion of the vast runoff volume generated during the monsoon by increasing its standing time and allowing it to percolate into depleted aquifers.

The latest Master Plan for Artificial Recharge to Ground Water by the CGWB (2013) proposes the need for 11 million recharge structures with a recharge capacity of 85.5 billion cubic meters per year to deal with the 34 percent groundwater deficit due to overextraction in India.

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IndiaWaterPortal.org, 11 July, 2022, https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/greening-barren-lands-traditional-way


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