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 INTRODUCTION
 FUNDAMENTALS OF AQUIFER
DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
 GROUND WATER POSSIBILITIES IN INDIA
 ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE
 ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE METHODS
 RESEARCH FINDINGS AND LATEST
DEVELOPMENTS
 CASE STUDY
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES
 Water is something we take for granted because we
see it everywhere. It falls like manna from the heavens
 Every city normally has a river nearby. What we can
not see is the hardship faced by the people where
water resource has been degraded.
 Water is ‘LIFE’ so it is very precious. About 97% water
is sea water & 2% is ice. Only 1% water is available
for human use.
 conservation of water and recharge of the ground
water has become an important phenomenon so that
we can preserve water for future.
 It is well known that ground water reservoir receives
recharges through a) Rainfall b) Rivers c) Streams d)
Irrigation water etc.
 Augmenting the ground water storage.
 Disposal of flood water.
 Containment of salt water intrusion.
 Waste disposal.
 Prevention of land subsidence due to
excess withdrawal.
 In the absence of surface water bodies
leads to the lowering of water table in a
regional scale.
 This causes drying up of dug and shallow
tube wells and consequent decrease in
productivity and even scarcity of drinking
water.
 Under such conditions, artificial recharge
of ground water by various methods
assumes a bigger role for better
management of water requirement for
crop and/or the population.
 There are three types of formation in India
that bear an yield groundwater.
 A large portion about 36% area consists of
consolidated hard rock formation with
little pore space but having joints.
 Fractures and shear planes which can
yield water by dug well or bore well upto a
little as 1 lit. sec.
 In semiconsolidated formation about 1.5%
area that includes Rajasthan, there is
good porosity yield and tunnels and deep
dug wells yield about 40 lit/sec.
 Artificial recharge may be defined as man’s
planned operation of transferring water
from the ground surface into aquifers.
 The process in which surface water
infiltrates deep into the ground and is
stored as ground water is known as
‘groundwater recharge’.
 Depending upon the source of surface
water.
 The recharge of ground water may be
classified as natural recharge and artificial
recharge.
Artificial recharge may be practiced in
order to achieve various objectives.
 Control of Regional hydrological
Regime
 Storage of Water
 Control of Water Quality
 Direct methods
 Indirect methods
Direct Recharge Methods
 Flooding
 Ditch and Furrow
 Recharge Basins
 Run-off Conservation Structures
› Gully plug
› Bench terracing
› Contour bunds
› Nala bunds and
› Percolation tanks
 Stream Channel Modification
 Surface Irrigation
Indirect Recharge Methods
 Induced Recharge
 Aquifer Yield Modification
 Research has continued on spreading
methods, particularly basin and stream
channel methods to increase efficiency of
(artificial) recharge continued of recharge
rates with time which is attributed to
microbial growths clogging the soil pores.
 This has been conformed by
experimenting on sterile soils which show
no decrease with time. This growth can be
checked by addition of organic matter or
chemical soil conditioners or alternate
wetting and drying of soil.
Latest Developments :
 Recharge from roof
 Recharge from sky
 Jacket well
 Fracture sill cementation
 Bore blasting
 Stream blasting
 Bore well floating
 Groundwater is ideal means of storage of
surface water which can obvile space time
unevenness with efficient artificial recharge
methods and highly improved pumping
techniques.
 Recharging wells are increasingly being used
for liquid waste disposal for recycling and its
subsequent reuse.
 This is a boon with prospect of water scarcity
conforming us increasingly. In short
groundwater and served with efficient pumps
in a solution to water conservation and water
recycling with which will be increasing.
 Making water Everybody’s Business
(Practical and Policy of water harvesting)
- Anil Agarwal,
- Sunita Narain &
- Indira Khurana
 Ground Water Recharge
 - M. L. Sharma
 Ground Water Recharge
 - I. Simmers
 Down to Earth
 www.google.com