In semi arid villages few farmers who have money are constructing huge farm ponds and instead of filling them by rain water, they are filling them with groundwater. In such case how we can address equity of groundwater at village level?

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Hello as we know in semi arid villages few farmers who have money are constructing huge farm ponds and instead of filling them by rain water, they are filling them with groundwater. In such case how we can address equity of groundwater at village level?

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  1. Farm pond water storage is subject to evaporation & when these reservoirs are filled by extracting groundwater by pumping , lots of electrical power is wasted (along with evaporation). So the only way is to supplement & increase your groundwater, from where your borewell/ Dugwell gets water. To create water security in a field, Groundwater level should be increased by Rainwater Harvsesting. We have a Patented , Low cost, Permanent solution of increasing depleting groundwater table, by harvesting ample rainwater underground. visit www.varshajal.com to know more.

  2. Water is necessary to life. No ecosystem, or even organism, can survive without certain minimal amounts of the substance. It is also vital to just about every form of human progress — from farming and ranching to organizing into urban centers to the energy revolution born out of the expansion of hydraulic fracturing. In context to your question, i just came across this good artcle about water laws and regulation, http://www.law360.com/articles/463341/texas-water-rights-may-be-endangered this may be of any interest to you.

  3. 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.

  4. When much is being written about ill effects of intensive groundwater use and how all the benefits accrue to the rich farmers and dis-benefits to the poor, because the rich own a major share of wells and tubewells and poor are always forced to buy water from them at exorbitant prices, I What we see does not surprise me, because I always knew that our small and marginal farmers own a dis-proportionate share of our groundwater structures relative to their land holding and also make more intensive use of groundwater than their richer counterparts. But these findings may come as surprise to a lot of doomsday predictors and naysayers. Ground water equity is on stack when reich farmer are filling their ponds with ground water. Government should come with strong laws against this. What country you belongs to Asem? are there any laws for ground water lifting?