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_US
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystemsen_US
cg.coverage.countryIndiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2INen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierTushaar Shah: 0000-0002-0565-8464en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100680en_US
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH049712en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn2214-5818en_US
cg.journalJournal of Hydrology: Regional Studiesen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.volume29en_US
dc.contributor.authorPatel, Praharsh M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSaha, D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorShah, Tushaaren_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-04T06:54:14Zen_US
dc.date.available2020-05-04T06:54:14Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/108135en_US
dc.titleSustainability of groundwater through community-driven distributed recharge: an analysis of arguments for water scarce regions of semi-arid Indiaen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
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_US
dcterms.extent29:100680en_US
dcterms.issued2020-06en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.subjectgroundwater rechargeen_US
dcterms.subjectaquifersen_US
dcterms.subjectcommunity involvementen_US
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen_US
dcterms.subjectsemiarid zonesen_US
dcterms.subjectimpact assessmenten_US
dcterms.subjectgroundwater tableen_US
dcterms.subjectgroundwater extractionen_US
dcterms.subjectwater policyen_US
dcterms.subjectwater scarcityen_US
dcterms.subjectirrigationen_US
dcterms.subjectmonsoon climateen_US
dcterms.subjectrainen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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