Question

Why is ground water a highly overused resource ?

CBSE Class X Social Science SA ( 3 marks)

Answer 1

Groundwater is a highly overused resource because of the following reasons :
(a) Due to large and growing population and consequent greater demands for water and unequal access to it.
(b) To facilitate higher food grain production for large population, water resources are being over exploited to expand irrigated areas and dry season agriculture.
(c) In the housing societies or colonies in the cities, there is an arrangement of own ground water pumping devices to meet water needs.

Answer 2

Now-a-daya groundwater is highly overused because of following reasons.

(1) underground water is French water sources are used for drinking purpose but it is actually over exploited in urban area for domestic purpose.

(2) underground water is also now over explode for irrigation purpose actually in green revolution areas of Punjab,haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh etc. Intensive agricultural practice internsify over exploitation of underground water.

(3) after independence many industries are developed along with many developement project .all these export underground water for valuous purpose and oftain contaminated it.