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How to Conduct a Pumping Test for Aquifer Storage CapacityA pumping test is a controlled field experiment used to understand how an aquifer responds when groundwater is extracted. By measuring drawdown and recovery in…
Fluorosis and arsenicosis: mapping India's groundwater health risksAcross vast stretches of rural Australia, families in places like Coober Pedy, the Pilbara cattle stations and parts of central Queensland draw household and…
Reclaimed quarries as aquifer recharge sites: promise and perilAustralia and India share a deepening water story. Both rely on aquifers long treated as inexhaustible, only to find wells deepening and springs failing. In…
Interpreting Hydrographs: Reading Long-Term Trends and Recharge EventsHydrographs are among the clearest visual records available to hydrogeologists, showing how groundwater levels rise and fall in response to recharge,…
Crop Diversification as a Policy Lever for Groundwater SustainabilityIndia draws nearly two-thirds of its irrigation water from underground aquifers, and decades of rice–wheat rotations in states such as Punjab, Haryana, and…
Alluvial aquifers and the lifeline of Delhi's water supplyBeneath the sprawling urban footprint of Delhi and its satellite towns lies one of the most heavily worked alluvial aquifer systems on the Indian subcontinent.…
Understanding groundwater quality testing parameters and their meaningGroundwater carries dissolved minerals, gases and microscopic life wherever it flows, and each of these influences whether the water is fit for drinking,…
Community-led groundwater stewardship in rural MaharashtraIn the parched scrublands of Vidarbha and the cotton belts of Marathwada, wells that once held water year-round now struggle through five-month dry spells.…
Reading the seasons of the Yamuna floodplain aquiferThe Yamuna river carves a long corridor through northern India, and beneath its floodplain lies one of the country's most studied aquifer systems. Every year,…
India's Aquifer Recharge Master Plan and the Road to Water SecurityAcross many parts of the Indian subcontinent, the story of groundwater reads like weather patterns. Wells deepen by a metre each year, monsoon rains arrive…

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