Kurukshetra, Volume 51, Issue 122003 - India |
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... situation is grave in seven per cent of the country's area where the stage of ground water depletion exceeds 85 per cent of the annual replenishable recharge . Besides , it has reached the critical stage in 11 per cent of the area where ...
... situation is grave in seven per cent of the country's area where the stage of ground water depletion exceeds 85 per cent of the annual replenishable recharge . Besides , it has reached the critical stage in 11 per cent of the area where ...
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... situation is getting worse day by day . This is mainly because there has never been any at- tempt to use the gigantic rivers by any government , neither state nor the centre . The poor residents silently gaze at water flowing in the ...
... situation is getting worse day by day . This is mainly because there has never been any at- tempt to use the gigantic rivers by any government , neither state nor the centre . The poor residents silently gaze at water flowing in the ...
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... situation remains so , the day will not be far off when they will cease to be a source of water . The glaciers of Bhagirathi and Alaknanda , the two tributaries of Ganga are shrinking at the rate of 17 meters / year . The rate of ...
... situation remains so , the day will not be far off when they will cease to be a source of water . The glaciers of Bhagirathi and Alaknanda , the two tributaries of Ganga are shrinking at the rate of 17 meters / year . The rate of ...
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activities agencies agriculture Angara Block approach aquifers assets borewells canal water command area committee community participation cost create crops dams Delhi districts drinking water drinking water supply economic ensure environmental facilities farm farmers form WUAS FOT programme Gandhi glaciers Government of India ground water groundwater Gujarat implementation increased involved irrigation Irrigation Department irrigation projects irrigation system Johads Karnataka land Madhya Pradesh major National needs NGOs operation and maintenance Organisation Orissa Panchayati Raj Institutions Pani Panchayat participatory planning PRIS problems production providing rainwater harvesting Rajasthan recharge resource management RFIs rivers role rural areas rural drinking water rural water supply safe drinking water Sector Reforms sources structures Supply and Sanitation sustainability Swajaladhara Tamil Nadu tanks traditional water transfer Village Panchayat VWSC water and sanitation water conservation water crisis water harvesting water management water quality water resources Water Supply Programme water users World Bank WUAS