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Groundwater Recharge
The fast drying Cauvery delta, at a tipping point
Posted on 11 Apr, 2023 11:31 PMDeltas around the world are under threat. Recent research shows that around 85 percent of the deltas of the world are shrinking.
What are deltas
![Cauvery river at Karnataka (Image Source: Ashwin Kumar via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-04/Cauvery%20river_1.jpg?itok=A447HslW)
An index for impact monitoring of water infrastructure
Posted on 25 Dec, 2022 06:52 PMMahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is currently the largest funded rural development program in India to ensure rural livelihood by providing employment through different activities.
![rigorous post-implementation monitoring and impact assessment of assets is needed (Image: UN Women)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-12/8237335587_3421362b57_b.jpg?itok=62WqAUWD)
Assessing Udaipur’s groundwater reserves
Posted on 29 Oct, 2022 03:21 PMPopulation increase has placed ever-increasing demands on the available groundwater resources, particularly for intensive agricultural activities.
![here are various methodologies involved in evaluating groundwater reserves. (Image: Needpix)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/well.jpg?itok=BEH8_bCB)
Groundwater prospective zones in Bundelkhand
Posted on 22 Oct, 2022 08:07 PMIn the Bundelkhand craton region, groundwater is the primary source of drinking water. Due to low rainfall, agriculture mainly depends on the goundwater supply, which comes through bore wells. Most of the time, the region faces a water crisis during the summer season as the wells and tube wells go dry.
![Numerous studies have been performed worldwide in which remote sensing data is used to delineate the groundwater potential zones (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/groundwater.jpeg?itok=eBvFLnBo)
Greening of barren lands – the local way
Posted on 11 Jul, 2022 01:04 PMGroundwater, the lifeline of India
Over 55 percent of India’s population relies on groundwater for irrigation, water for cattle, domestic consumption, and industrial use making India the world’s greatest groundwater extractor, surpassing the USA and China combined.
![Can greening of barren lands happen? (Image Source: India Water Portal Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-07/Greening.jpg?itok=KhADuwa-)
Napo Jal Bachao Kal campaign - the pre-monsoon groundwater monitoring 2022 exercise commences
Posted on 12 May, 2022 09:22 AMStarting May 15, 2022 Mamatha from Andhra Pradesh, and Rameshwar from Maharashtra, equipped with a mobile phone and a measuring tape, will be joining several others heading to their fields and neighbouring villages to measure wells.
![Women use an open source groundwater monitoring tool that enables collection of water level data of wells and its collation on a web platform for easy access by all. (Image: FES)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-05/Well%20Water%20Monitoring%202.jpg?itok=fgqFLucq)
Coal mining in Hasdeo forests gets a go ahead; protestors continue to resist
Posted on 10 May, 2022 07:34 AMChhattisgarh government allows coal mining in Hasdeo forests
![Work in progress in a coal mine in India (Image source: IWP Flickr Album). Image for representation only](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-05/15010336808_383bd10b55_c%20%281%29.jpg?itok=bhLnvKPd)
Making the invisible, visible
Posted on 26 Apr, 2022 11:10 PMExcessive dependence and unregulated use of groundwater is draining India dry with 84 percent of groundwater being used for irrigation and 90 percent for drinking in rural areas.
![Groundwater, a fast disappearing resource (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-04/Groundwater.jpg?itok=vzUDbBRi)
Delhi, sinking?
Posted on 18 Mar, 2022 10:28 AMDelhi is facing the risk of land subsidence. And uncontrolled and illegal groundwater extraction is to blame!
What is land subsidence
![The rapidly urbanisisng Delhi (Image Source: Lokantha at English Wikipedia via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/Smog_in_the_skies_of_Delhi%2C_India.jpg?itok=UhNBzXaD)
Need for demand-side management: From the lens of participatory groundwater management
Posted on 16 Mar, 2022 07:27 AMThe word Kachch is derived from the Gujarati word ‘Kachha’, meaning tortoise, from which the drought-prone district of Kutch gets i
![Arid Communities and Technologies (ACT) is a professional voluntary organization based at in the arid region of Kutch. One of its core areas of work is the implementation of innovative projects like community aquifer management. (Image: Vikalp Sangam)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/ACT.jpg?itok=NLLwPSu3)