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The rapid industrialization and urbanization of the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi is likely to have its impact on the groundwater resources. In this context, the article is an attempt to present a glimpse of spatio-temporal variations in dynamic groundwater resources of NCR Delhi. The groundwater resources data for years 2004, 2009, 2011 and 2013 were analyzed to observe spatio-temporal variations in net groundwater availability and the irrigation, domestic and industrial groundwater draft. Further, in order to have a better insight into the temporal and spatial variations, we attempted normalization by estimating “unit area draft”. The unit area draft is a ratio of total draft corresponding to particular land use to the area under the given land use category. This article presents these analyses for NCR sub regions of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The vulnerable stretches in each sub-regions of NCR have been identified on the basis of the temporal variation in attributes of the groundwater system. It has been observed that the status of groundwater system has changed from the years 2004 to 2009 and further from 2011 to 2013. The study will help planners and environmental managers in formulating suitable policies in light of the facts highlighted in the article.
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SA acknowledges University of Delhi (DU) for providing non-NET scholarship. Some concepts of the article were discussed at the National Conference on “Water-Technological Innovation and Solution, 2018”, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Faridabad, India. We thank the anonymous reviewer for his/her critical comments which helped in improving the manuscript.
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Ali, S., Kumar, S., Shekhar, S. (2021). Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Groundwater Resources of National Capital Region, Delhi. In: Adhikary, P.P., Shit, P.K., Santra, P., Bhunia, G.S., Tiwari, A.K., Chaudhary, B.S. (eds) Geostatistics and Geospatial Technologies for Groundwater Resources in India. Springer Hydrogeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62397-5_24
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