{"id":7663,"date":"2022-11-10T05:07:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T23:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7663"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:37:15","slug":"groundwater-extraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/groundwater-extraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundwater Extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Groundwater Extraction:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The assessment was carried out jointly by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), States and Union Territories.<\/li>\n<li>Such joint exercises between the CGWB and States\/Union Territories were carried out earlier in 1980, 1995, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Highlights:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The total annual groundwater recharge for the entire country is 437.6 billion cubic metres (bcm) and annual groundwater extraction for the entire country is 239.16 bcm.<\/li>\n<li>Out of the total 7,089 assessment units in the country, 1,006 units have been categorised as \u201cover-exploited\u201d in the report.<\/li>\n<li>By comparison, an assessment in 2020 found that the annual groundwater recharge was 436 bcm and extraction 245 bcm.<\/li>\n<li>In 2017, recharge was 432 bcm and extraction 249 bcm. The 2022 assessment suggests that groundwater extraction is the lowest since 2004, when it was 231 bcm.<\/li>\n<li>The analysis indicates increase in ground water recharge which may mainly be attributed to increase in recharge from canal seepage, return flow of irrigation water and recharges from water bodies\/tanks &amp; water conservation structures.<\/li>\n<li>The improvement in ground water conditions in 909 assessment units in the country when compared with 2017 assessment data.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, overall decrease in number of over-exploited units and decrease in stage of groundwater extraction level have also been observed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G3HAGC9P8.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process,deliberate,of extracting ground water from a source at rate so in excess of the replenishment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}