Gabriela Cuadrado-Quesada

Equity and justice in groundwater access: connecting the dots

Groundwater law and community practices need to go hand in hand to achieve equity and justice in groundwater access in India, argues this recent study.

K J Joy

Posted on 29 Oct, 2021 12:32 AM

India is drying up fast with low costs and the ease of availability of groundwater technologies triggering uncontrolled extraction of groundwater. And groundwater is not only important for irrigation in India. About 90 percent of rural drinking water comes from groundwater while 50 percent of the water supplied to urban areas comes from groundwater besides 70 percent for irrigation!

Equity and justice in groundwater access, an urgent need (Image Source: India Water Portal)

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