Groundwater Management

Ground Water Development and Management

Groundwater resources play a major role in ensuring livelihood security across the world, especially in economies that depend on agriculture. The socio-economic dependency on groundwater is explained over a range of factors.

They explain the intricacy in managing groundwater resources. At the same time, groundwater systems have become the lender of last resort and depletion of renewable groundwater stocks is taken as the first indicator of water scarcity. Moreover, groundwater is considered to be less vulnerable than surface sources to climate fluctuations and can therefore help to stabilize agricultural populations and reduce the need for farmers to migrate when drought threatens agricultural livelihoods.

In other words, groundwater resources provide a reliable drought buffer in large regions of the world. The ability to access groundwater plays a major role in reducing risk and increasing incomes,especially when Other modes of irrigation are absent. We attempt to capture the multiple dimensions of a resource that is used on a large scale in most populated regions of the India, primarily due to such ability. We keep an India-focus for the reason that India has emerged as one of the largest users of groundwater in the world.