How deep have we reached for our groundwater?

India, is the largest extractor of groundwater in the world1. A majority of over 60% of irrigated agriculture and 85% of drinking water supplies are dependent on groundwater. Sustainable groundwater resources is quite challenging as their is trade off in increasing the crop yield and decreasing the dependency on the groundwater resources with high uncertainty in rainfall due to climate change
To quantify the current and future groundwater resources is the need of the hour to have a management plan in hand. Satyukt has developed a simple groundwater tool1,2 to estimate the recharge, draft and specific yield and further forecast the groundwater levels into the future using the future rain from the Climate Models3.
1World bank report.
2Sat Kumar, T. (2010). “Soil moisture modeling, retrieval from microwave remote sensing and assimilation in a tropical watershed.” Ph.D. thesis, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
3ambhasGW is available in R (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ambhasGW/index.html)
4Subash, Y., Sekhar, M., Tomer, S. K., & Sharma, A. K. (2017). A Framework for Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater System Formations. In Sustainable Water Resources Management (pp. 375-397).