Volume : IX, Issue : IV, April - 2019

GROUNDWATER TABLE DEPLETION: A CASE STUDY OF KURUKSHETRA DISTRICT OF HARYANA

Miss Neeraj, Dr. Manju, Miss Mamta

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Water is an essential commodity for human life. Increasing need of water consequent upon agriculture development may be met by intensive use of the available resources. The contribution of groundwater to irrigated agriculture in India is about 50 percent. Haryana has an agriculture–based economy confronted with perpetual deficit of water. Since canal water is not sufficient to meet the requirements of irrigation, farmers are exploiting ground water through a large number of shallow tube wells. This paper focus on water conditions, viz, ground water table and its fluctuation in Kurukshetra District. Groundwater in the most parts of this area is fresh; its over exploitation has resulted in the fall of groundwater table leading to water table depletion. The study reveals that groundwater table is going down 0.8 meters every year due to its over exploitation. Excessive use of groundwater resources has resulted in serious environmental and land degradation problems. It is believed that one of the major causes of the decline in groundwater table is the introduction of water–intensive crop such as wheat–rice which is most prevalent cropping system in this region. The present study unfolds the spatio–temporal change in water at block level in Kurukshetra District of Haryana state, and covers a period of 20 years i.e. 1990 to 2010.

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GROUNDWATER TABLE DEPLETION: A CASE STUDY OF KURUKSHETRA DISTRICT OF HARYANA, Miss Neeraj, Dr. Manju, Miss Mamta INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-4 | April-2019

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