The government is promoting conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water for sustainable management of water resources in the country.
WD News: The dynamic groundwater resources of the country are being periodically assessed jointly by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and state governments.
The comparison between latest assessment (2022) with the 2017 assessment indicates that the average ‘Stage of Groundwater Extraction (i.e. gross groundwater extraction for all uses on an average to available groundwater resource)’ for the country as a whole improved to 60.08% (2022 assessment) as compared to 63.33% (2017 assessment).
Further, annual groundwater extraction for various uses in the country as per 2022 and 2017 assessments are 239.16 Billion Cubic Metre (BCM) and 248.69 BCM indicating a lesser overall groundwater extraction of around 9.53 BCM.
The government is focussing on sustainable management of the water resources in the country specially targeting the water stressed areas by promoting community based interventions at village level using scientific/innovative means like identifying and characterising the aquifers for its proper management at finer scale, preparation/implementation of water security plans at village levels, use of micro-irrigation practices like sprinkler/drip irrigation systems, real time groundwater level monitoring and its dissemination to stake-holders, etc.
Source: PIB
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