Telling Numbers: The extent of groundwater over-exploitation, state by state | Explained News, The Indian Express

Telling Numbers: The extent of groundwater over-exploitation, state by state | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Updated: August 5, 2019 8:38:53 am

Telling Numbers: The extent of groundwater over-exploitation, state by state

Punjab has the highest extent of over-exploitation at 79 per cent of its blocks, followed Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, each at 50 per cent or more.

All these over-exploited assessment units are in 17 states and Union Territories. (File)

Groundwater resources are over-exploited in 1,186 out of 6,881 “assessment units” (blocks, talukas, watersheds etc) in the country, the Jal Shakti Ministry said in reply to a question in Lok Sabha. This was as assessed in 2017, and translates to 17%, or one in every six of these units.