Ground Water Management: Need for Sustainable Approach

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Ground Water Management: Need for Sustainable Approach

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Menon, Sudha Venu

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Sudha Venu Menon

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Groundwater constitutes about 89% of the total fresh water resources in the planet. But in recent years, due to over exploitation of ground water and erratic nature of monsoon, there has been depletion of ground water across the world. Depletion of ground water has reached to the extent that it is virtually impossible to get the water table back. Even though there is a possibility of recharge of water from the other areas, the process is very slow and may take one year to replenish one meter. In view of this management of ground water has become one of the most significant issues in recent times. Added to it, there are also environmental problems such as aqua for mining, salt water intrusion, stream base flow reduction etc. For several reasons the efficient management of ground water resources through market mechanism has become difficult. Against this context the present article attempts to analyze the need for sustainable ground water management in India. The article also briefly discusses the concept of sustainable ground water management, factors affecting ground water availability, different approaches towards developing and using available ground water with out adversely affecting the hydro-geological balance. Further, the paper highlights strategies for sustainable groundwater management, including development of aquifers, rainwater harvesting and artificial recharge methods. The article offers some relevant policy recommendations for sustainable groundwater management in India.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 6078.

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Date of creation: 15 Oct 2007
Date of revision: 10 Nov 2007
Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:6078

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Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water

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NEP-AGR-2007-12-08 (Agricultural Economics)
NEP-ALL-2007-12-08 (All new papers)
NEP-CWA-2007-12-08 (Central & Western Asia)
NEP-ENV-2007-12-08 (Environmental Economics)

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