Steady declining trend of groundwater table and severe water crisis in unconfined hard rock aquifers in extended part of Chota Nagpur Plateau, India

Abstract Scarcity of groundwater is a severe problem in this region due to over exploitation of groundwater from unconfined hard rock aquifers. The main objectives of this study are to analyse the spatiotemporal variability and fluctuation of groundwater table and to predict the location of groundwa...

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Main Authors: Biswajit Bera, Pravat Kumar Shit, Nairita Sengupta, Soumik Saha, Sumana Bhattacharjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-02-01
Series:Applied Water Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13201-021-01550-x