Ensuring the Availability of Groundwater: Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR)

There are many places in the world that depend solely on their groundwater for drinking, irrigating crops, or anything else requiring water. As population increases and industries expand in these areas more groundwater is required which can lead to its unsustainable use. When this happens wells must be dug deeper at a cost to the owner (if wells can even reach the water anymore), polluted water can fill the void left by low water levels in the aquifer, and for coastal areas the groundwater could be infiltrated with salt water, not to mention people won’t have water. However, this can be avoided by means of some very simple technologies that have been used around the world for centuries, referred to recently as Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR). Read the complete article at HydrateLife: www.hydratelife.org/?p=860

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1. Everywhere in central part of India these recharge dams are used by the Watershed development workers. Even the IndoGerman orgnisation has approved this construction. Simple and very economical.

2. Thanks Priyanka. That looks like a great idea. Do you know if it's been successful where installed?

3. Brien, one of our local NGO also have developed a simple structure for ground water recharge and water storage . This is known as Vanarai Bandhara, you can get detail at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaOx6UX4c7o