Supply and demand, a key economic principle, applies to natural resources, including groundwater, which is essential for life. Of Earth's water, only 3% is freshwater, and less than 1% is accessible for use. Groundwater constitutes approximately 99% of this accessible freshwater. 50% of global population use this for drinking water, while the same dependency is 85% in India. With increasing demand of GW, number of borewells has also increased in numbers. Monitoring this growth is essential for long term sustainability of GW. However, the current governing mechanism lacks this approach. This work introduces an IoT-based device to monitor borewells in real-time via an interactive web map, helping regulate usage, promote sustainable groundwater management, and contribute to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
Increasing number of borewells is putting groundwater sustainability at risk of severe depletion, consequent MI census over the years have reported 80% of growth rate in borewell installation. Although MI census borewell enumeration methodology is prone to misreporting, thus impacting effective policy planning. Whereas there is no existing borewells enumeration practice for other than agricultural borewells, be it industrial, urban, domestic or commercial. CAG found numbers of borewells operating commercially without proper clearance and violating usage norms putting groundwater usage at long term risk.
This can measure depth of borewells while being drilled, without significant manual intervention. Together with geo-located data this can operate on a governance framework, acting as a digital watchdog for policy regimes.
The prototype is tested for its core functionality under a lab-based environment.
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Addressing groundwater sustainability is a need of 21st century given the past advancement in groundwater ecosystem has mainly been focused on increasing extraction. With increasing dependency, policy makers, governing bodies and sustainable development agents lacks a tool that helps monitor groundwater extraction. This tool is developed to fill this gap in sustainable management of groundwater.
Borewell Drilling, Groundwater Governance, Sustainable Development Goals
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