Gurugram: The City Pre-Monsun City Ground Level has receded this year, this time an average of 0.78 meters compared to 2020, underlining great concerns on excessive extraction that has teased the city for years without a significantly discovered solution to slow down the trend , if it doesn’t turn it over.
In the past four years, the average surface of the Gurugram block has dropped more than 4 meters to 36.99 m below the ground level this year.
The city has been close to the water crisis since 2013, when it is categorized as “overexploited” by the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA).
In 15 years, the average depth where ground water is almost doubled.
195m In 2006.
TOI has reported in 2018 that city water tables have fallen 82% in a decade at a rate of decline in a range of 0.5-2m every year.
According to the Groundwater cell record, the average surface of pre-monsoon water in Gurugram is 33.23 m in 2018, which fell to 35.85m in 2019.
It further fell to 36.21m in 2020 and 36.99 m this year .
Experts have determined that the city extracts ground water three times more than recharged.
There is no regular water connection in more than 40% of the city, and people living in this area depend on groundwater, according to the country cells.
Extraction pressure on groundwater will only increase when the city population continues to increase in consentance with the rapid economic growth that has been witnessed.
The 2031 master plan imagined a 40 lakh-plus population.
Other Gurugram blocks, meanwhile, have reported a slight increase in this year’s water table.
While Sohna’s water level rose 0.52 million to 25.59m this year (from 26.11m in 2020), Farrukhnagar recorded a 0.41m increase from 20.56 AD last year to 20.15m in 2021.
Pataudi water level, but dipped From 37.79m in the previous year to 38.37m this year, a decrease of 0.58m.
In 2019, the Gurugram government has sealed around 400 illegal Borewell and launched aid channel for people to file complaints about this issue in June in the same year.
Hydology vs Lamba from the country’s cells said efforts showed results.
“We have taken corrective measures regarding illegal water extraction.
As a result, we have been able to reduce water table fluctuations in recent years.” Experts say that there is a need to map extraction hotspots in the city.
“The authorities need to identify hotspots where the extraction rate is high and take appropriate remedial actions,” Chetan Aggarwal said, an environmental analyst, said.
Not only Gurugram, thinning the water level is concern for the entire state.
Haryana has witnessed a 19% overall decline in aquifers (underground layers of water bearing rocks) in the last five years.
The average water level is 17.75m in June 2015, which has fallen to 21.18m in 2020.
CGWA records also show that of 141 blocks in Haryana, 85 blocks (60% of the country’s geographical region) has reached the ‘Red Category ‘In 2020 due to overexwater exploitation.
In 2004, CGWA had reported that 55 blocks were in the ‘Red Category’.
The withdrawal of annual ground water in Haryana is 137% of the groundwater resources that can be extracted annually, compared to the national average of 63%.
Keshni Anand, Chair of the Water Resources Authority Haryana, said, “Water level depletion is the reason for worrying in the state.
Irrigation is the main reason behind it when plants such as rice need a large amount of water for cultivation.
The Haryana government has provided a way out of rice farmers With micro irrigation.
We adopt a holistic approach to solving problems and will soon have a monitoring system in each village to study water table fluctuations.
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