This paper by ICRISAT discusses the results from on-farm community watersheds through groundwater management as the drivers for sustainable management of watersheds in dry land areas. The issues of sustainable development and management of the groundwater resource through integrated watershed management (IWM) approach are also dealt with, in the context of food production and security.Read More
This information booklet from the Central Ground Water Board (Eastern Region) deals with groundwater related information for the arsenic infested district of Murshidabad in West Bengal . The groundwater related issues and problems the distrcit include –Read More
Groundwater quality: The problem of arsenic in the district is geogenic in origin. Arsenic in groundwater in sporadic manner has been identified in 19 blocks. A total population of 40,08,480 are residing in the risk zone. Arsenic concentration in groundwater varies from 0.001-1.85 mg/l.
The report presents the dynamic groundwater resources of India based on Groundwater Estimation Committee (GEC 97) report with base year as 2004. It identifies the areas where groundwater development is at low key and the areas where groundwater development is alarmingly high. The estimation for the individual state was jointly done by the groundwater wing of the State Government and the concerned Regional Office of the Central Groundwater Board.Read More
This report by the Planning Commission, Government of India primarily looks at the problem of rural depletion of groundwater and into the feasibility and necessity of changing groundwater law. The report is divided into the following chapters:Read More
This is a presentation from the Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency of Maharashtra on the issues that led to the Groundwater Act of Maharashtra and the experiencRead More
This paper published in the Law, Environment and Development Journal aims at understanding the experience of implementation of the Groundwater legislation Act in the state of Maharashtra, which is among the few states that modified the law pertaining to groundwater to effectively address the issue of ownership and rights to groundwater and thereafter seriously tried to implement the modified law.Read More
In this paper published in the Economic and Political Weekly two alternative institutional arrangements in water sharing from West Bengal have been compared from the perspective of the impact they have on the water buyers - in most cases small and marginal farmers. Read More
Cauvery basin includes around 11,000 sq km of sedimentaries in the delta region and the remaining area is occupied by hard rocks. In granite region, weathered zones form the shallow aquifers, the average depth of weathering is around 15 m. Read More
