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Groundwater: A Valuable but Diminishing Resource” Report
March 25 , 2023
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- This report was tabled in Parliament by the Standing Committee on Water Resources.
- Of the total annual extractable groundwater resource of 398 billion cubic metres (BCM) in the country till 2020, 245 BCM was being extracted.
- It indicated there was a decrease in the overall level of groundwater extraction from 63.3 per cent in 2017 to 61.6 per cent in 2020.
- Groundwater levels in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, and 20 other cities dipped by more than 20 metres from 2017 to 2020.
- Haryana’s Faridabad has become 100 per cent dependent on groundwater use.
- Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, which are extracting 97%, 90% and 86% of groundwater, respectively.
- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh are also significant users of groundwater for irrigation as they are using approximately 89%, 92% and 90%, respectively.
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