Groundwater irrigation has been instrumental in enhancing food security and, arguably, in mitigating poverty in developing countries. Groundwater provides timely irrigation, leading to an increase in crop intensity and productivity (Food and Agriculture Organization 2003). But groundwater irrigation also contributes the most to the depletion of groundwater reserves. Countries with significant g...

Groundwater from the coastal aquifers north of Chennai is being pumped since 1981 to meet the increasing demand. Huge groundwater extracting in the coastal aquifers groundwater causes lowering of groundwater table which led to seawater intrusion. The objective of this study is to assess the behavior of this aquifer to seawater intrusion under different hydrological stresses by groundwater model...

Industrial pollution in groundwater has become an essential health concern because of its life-threatening impacts on humans. To examine the hydro-geochemical processes controlling chemistry Peenya Area (PIA), Bangalore city, 65 samples were collected during July 2016, January 2017, and August 2017 to analyse major ions using Flame-photometer, UV-Spectrophotometer standard titration methods. Th...