As many as 145 villages in Vidarbha could possibly be going through water shortage, the Groundwater Survey and Development Authority (GSDA) has warned.
The newest Probable Drinking Water Scarcity report October-2020, issued by the GSDA, has been ready on the idea of rainfall acquired throughout June to September final yr and the next groundwater recharge.
According to projections, water shortage might emerge in eight talukas — largely in Akola, Amravati, Yavatmal and Chandrapur and some in Marathwada beginning January. At least 16 extra talukas in the remainder of the state might face a water disaster from April onwards. These embody talukas from Nashik, Nandurbar and Nanded districts, the place depletion of groundwater reserves has been reported since final monsoon.
However, there aren’t any indicators of any doable groundwater shortage in many of the districts — Pune, Solapur, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Palghar, Aurangabad, Beed, Jalna, Parbhani, Osmanabad, Latur, Buldhana, Washim, Nagpur and Wardha until subsequent monsoon.
The city-headquartered GSDA is remitted to measure groundwater tables throughout the state 4 instances a yr, on the idea of which groundwater extraction and water administration for irrigation and consuming functions is deliberate by the state authorities. Of all of the surveys, the pre and submit monsoon analyses, completed in May and October respectively, are decisive in water administration — each floor (dams and reservoirs) and groundwater (borewells, tubewells, and many others.) until the subsequent monsoon season.
From June to September final yr, rainfall recorded over Maharashtra was 1,165 mm, which was 16 per cent above regular for the season, based on the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Of the three,694 designated wells surveyed in October 2020, depletion (over one metre or extra) in groundwater reserves was reported in 767 wells.
These have been situated in 30 of the 355 talukas in Maharashtra, the place the groundwater desk fell by greater than two metres, the report said.
However, the GSDA officers stated that 258 talukas, accounting for 72 per cent of all talukas, reported no groundwater depletion and in some talukas, groundwater desk replenishment was greater than their common over the last season.
