Jeopardy Situation of Depleting Groundwater Resources in Kurukshetra District, Haryana

Groundwater is the most valuable, profitable and fair normal asset of the earth and is of most extreme significance in all aspects of human life. The paper showed the danger circumstance of exhausting groundwater assets and its suggestions in Kurukshetra area, Haryana, India. In Kurukshetra, out of 1, 51,000 ha net inundated zone, 28,000 ha region is watered by waterway and 1, 23,000 ha zone is flooded by groundwater assets. Around 81 percents of the water system depend on groundwater assets, which demonstrate the overwhelming weight on the groundwater assets for water system divisions. The draft of groundwater for water system reason has expanded in all respects quickly in last more than multi decade. The exacerbating water balance in the area has brought about the consistently expanding number of squares under the classes of the overexploited condition. As per CGWB 2013 report, the percent of absolute squares, under overexploited condition has gone up to 100 percent, the entire of 5 squares of Kurukshetra area are experiencing danger circumstance of groundwater consumption. The groundwater level in Kurukshetra area dropped up to 20.75 m amid the last one and half decade (1998-2014) at a rate of more than 1m/year in Shahabad square.