Aderse effect of ground water level have gone down due to increase in use of water by people
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Wrong Agricultural practices
In rural India, water scarcity is also the result of untested agricultural practices, such as cultivating more water-consuming crops – paddy, cotton and sugarcane – in areas riddled with water scarcity.
Increase in Irrigated Area
Our country’s economy primarily rests on agriculture. Agriculture contributes 40 percent to the GDP of the country, and accounts for 60 percent of the total export revenues. Also, 60 percent of the country’s population is engaged in agriculture and related work. One of the major reasons for water crisis in the country is that as the area of irrigated land has increased, the level of groundwater has declined. Currently, India has a gross irrigated crop area of 82.6 million hectares (215.6 million acres), which is the largest in the world. As the population increases, the water storage capacity of ponds decreases. In fact, wells and ponds go dry after the water decreases at the ground level.
Politics of subsidy
Politics of subsidies has led to volatile extraction of ground water leading to its scarcity. Farmer tends to use water for irrigation without any restriction due to availability of cheap, subsidized electricity, thanks to politics of populism
Wrong Agricultural practices
In rural India, water scarcity is also the result of untested agricultural practices, such as cultivating more water-consuming crops – paddy, cotton and sugarcane – in areas riddled with water scarcity.