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Account for the geographical distribution of groundwater resources of India. How serious is its depletion in recent decades?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Resources

Groundwater occurrence is controlled by porosity and permeability, which in India are set by lithology, not by rainfall alone — the reason the wettest tracts are often the poorest aquifers.

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