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Groundwater equity

The economic returns to groundwater irrigation motivated tremendous growth in the use of groundwater since last 50 years. This development was actively supported through soft loans from institutional finance, free electrical power to lift groundwater, some provisions of the land reforms act, institutional finance and refinance to groundwater dependent enterprises and the overall demonstration effect. In some areas, this development has resulted in cumulative well interference leading to reduction in water availability due to competitive race for groundwater gradually abandoning using their wells. Apart from this abandonment (or well failure) during operational stage, the failure of wells is also increasing at the installation (or the construction) stage itself.

I feel ground water equity can be established by 1. Strong laws against ground water lifting. 2. Community awareness on ground water management 3. rain water harvesting should be compulsory in arid and semi arid area.