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Project Document About 0.27 m ha area in the State is water logged, out of which 0.03 m ha is within four major canal commands. An area of about 0.12 m ha is suffering from soil salinity. Declining groundwater levels is another major problem faced in more than 500 mandals. About 30% groundwater basins are in semi-critical to over-exploited stage of development. Watershed treatment and rainwater conservation are being taken up under the Neeru-Meeru (Water and You) programme to enhance groundwater recharge. Under this programme, about 11.5 m ha watershed area is expected to be treated by 2007, and the more than 70,000 tanks are being taken up for desilting in phases. Nearly 50% of target watershed area is in Telangana region. The groundwater potential of Andhra Pradesh has been revised in 2002, by dividing the state into 1195 assessment units using the database of 2000-1 by the State Level Groundwater Estimation Committee constituted in 1999. As per the estimates, the net annual available groundwater is 30.41 bcm (1,074 tmc), out of which 12.97 bcm (458 tmc) is being currently used. The area considered for evaluation of groundwater potential is about 22.8 m ha, and groundwater is being used in about 2.6 m ha for irrigation and in areas occupied by villages (26,586) and urban areas (117) for drinking water. Thus the total area from which groundwater exploitation is taking place may be of the order of about 5 m ha. Therefore, consideration of groundwater potential in areas of present use or areas of likely future use could only provide a better picture of supplies and demands. Even considering the groundwater utilization in the entire net sown area of about 39% of the State, which may not increase much in future, consideration of a net groundwater potential of about 50% of the 30.41 bcm could provide a realistic picture of the utilizable groundwater potential. The exploitation of groundwater has tremendously increased with the well population increasing from 0.89 mln (million) in 1975 to 2.2 mln in 2001. The area irrigated with groundwater has increased from 1 m ha to 2.6 m ha in the same period. The present stage of groundwater development is about 43% (on consideration of net utilizable potential as above, it would be 86%), but is not uniform through out the State. In certain pockets/areas intensive development has led to a critical situation, and the problem is manifested in the form of declining groundwater levels, shortage in supply, saline water encroachment and increase in the incidence of fluoride, iron, salinity, etc. contrary to this condition, the groundwater levels are rising in canal command areas leading to water logging and soil salinity. 11
Project Document Increase groundwater development could be a result of substantial amount of subsidies extended to the power sector. A large share of power subsidy is going to the agriculture sector, mainly to pump groundwater which has led to an increase in the number of wells, which in turn led to over-extraction of groundwater. The power subsidy is giving wrong signals to the farming community. The agriculture sector in the state consumes 36-40% of power, but is contributing only 4-5% of the revenue due to the highly subsidized tariff. Recently, some rationalization has been done in this direction, but the hike is still nominal in agriculture sector when compared with other sectors. Low tariff and high subsidies in agriculture have resulted in the installation of a large number of tube wells, and led to distortion in cropping with the resultant inefficient usage of water and electricity. This has also led to a sharp decline in water table in the non-canal commands. Depending on the exploitation of groundwater and trends of fluctuation of groundwater levels, the groundwater assessment units have been categorized. About 70% area of the state has been categorized within safe limits of groundwater utilization. The groundwater development in non-command areas is highest in the dry Rayalaseema, reaching 72% with 52 over-exploited assessment units, 57% in Telangana and 50% in Coastal Andhra respectively. Detailed micro-level studies are being planned to demarcate village with over exploited and critical stages of groundwater development. In Andhra Pradesh Water, Land and Tree Act, 2002, have been legislated to control over exploitation of groundwater and to safeguard drinking water sources. In Andhra Pradesh, even after all the major and medium irrigation projects, under construction or contemplated are implemented; about 50% of irrigation will still depend on groundwater. Moreover, 85% of the rural drinking water supply comes from groundwater source. Thus, sustainable management of groundwater plays a major role in the agriculture sector, which in turn contributes to the economic development of the country that still remains agrarian. 12
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