Sustainability of groundwater through community-driven distributed recharge: an analysis of arguments for water scarce regions of semi-arid India

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierTushaar Shah: 0000-0002-0565-8464
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100680en
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH049712
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2214-5818en
cg.journalJournal of Hydrology: Regional Studiesen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume29en
dc.contributor.authorPatel, Praharsh M.en
dc.contributor.authorSaha, D.en
dc.contributor.authorShah, Tushaaren
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-04T06:54:14Zen
dc.date.available2020-05-04T06:54:14Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/108135
dc.titleSustainability of groundwater through community-driven distributed recharge: an analysis of arguments for water scarce regions of semi-arid Indiaen
dcterms.abstractStudy Region: Semi-Arid Regions of Marathawada, Vidarbha and Saurashtra in India Study Focus: To understand and evaluate the impact of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) efforts. New Hydrological Insights for the Region: Since 1990, the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, India witnessed a massive community-based distributed groundwater recharge movement, initially catalyzed by NGOs and later supported by the government. The region has witnessed visible improvement in groundwater resources during recent years, which was attributed by some researchers to the recharge movement. A competing hypothesis holds that improvement in groundwater levels in Saurashtra are a result more due to a succession of good rainfall years during 2001–2014, aided by transfer of surface water from a big dam on Narmada River, rather than the distributed recharge movement. We develop and implement a 2-way test of these competing hypotheses: First, we compare groundwater recharge patterns in Saurashtra during a recent period of high rainfall years with a similar period before the onset of the recharge movement; second, for both these high rainfall periods, we also compare groundwater recharge patterns in two other comparable aquifer and terrain regions, viz., Vidarbha and Marathawada in Maharastra, which did not experience recharge movement on the same scale as Saurashtra did. Our results support the hypothesis that the community supported distributed recharge movement is the key to improved groundwater recharge in Saurashtra during 2004-09.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationPatel, Praharsh M.; Saha, D.; Shah, Tushaar. 2020. Sustainability of groundwater through community-driven distributed recharge: an analysis of arguments for water scarce regions of semi-arid India. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 29:100680.en
dcterms.extent29:100680en
dcterms.issued2020-06
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectgroundwater rechargeen
dcterms.subjectaquifersen
dcterms.subjectcommunity involvementen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.subjectsemiarid zonesen
dcterms.subjectimpact assessmenten
dcterms.subjectgroundwater tableen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater extractionen
dcterms.subjectwater policyen
dcterms.subjectwater scarcityen
dcterms.subjectirrigationen
dcterms.subjectmonsoon climateen
dcterms.subjectrainen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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