The remainder — 24 billion cubic meters — supplies 85 percent of the country’s drinking water. Roughly 80 percent of India’s 1.35 billion residents depend on groundwater for both drinking and irrigation. What is groundwater table decline? Groundwater depletion, a term often defined as long-term water-level declines caused by sustainedRead More →

Some of the negative effects of ground-water depletion include increased pumping costs, deterioration of water quality, reduction of water in streams and lakes, or land subsidence. Such effects, while variable, happen to some degree with any ground-water use. What are the effects of water level depletion? Large bodies of waterRead More →