INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: Apart from enhancement in air quality, the lockdown and decreased human activity for the previous year along with an excellent
monsoon has had great tidings with regard to groundwater levels too
There has actually been a net increase in groundwater level of 2.03 m in April as compared to the very same month last year, state
authorities of the state ground water department.The rise, they state, is observed in 27 districts
Six other districts, however, saw a fall in groundwater levels
Pandith Madhanure, director of the department, told Deccan Chronicle, The water levels have actually not dipped because the extraction was
restricted to drinking water purposes
There was no industrial extraction of water
While the variety of people remaining back in the house increased, industrial activities like building came to a halt or slowed down for
This helped in the increase in groundwater levels.A report by the department stated the tiniest rise of groundwater level of 0.26 m was
observed in Karimnagar district and a maximum increase of 7.08 m in Sangareddy district
A minimum fall of 0.01 m was observed in Bhupalapally and a maximum fall of 1.85 m in the groundwater level was seen in Adilabad district
The levels of this April as compared to March showed an increase in location of deep-water level (higher than 20 m) by 852 km2 of state
The fall, compared to decadal average of April from 2011 2020, of up to 0.5 m was observed in 24 mandals, a 0.5-1 m in eight mandals, 1-2 m
in nine mandals and a fall of more than 2m in 14 mandals
These mandals fall in the western and southern parts of Nizamabad, north and eastern Bhupalpally, western part of Adilabad and the main part
