Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

Vol 28, Feb Suppl. Issue, 2022; Page No.(506-511)

STUDY OF WATER MANAGEMENT AND SCARCITY OF DRINKING WATER IN ALWAR CITY (RAJASTHAN)

R.N. Yadav and Ajit Singh

Abstract

A detailed study has been carried out for water management and its scarcity in Alwar city (India) by authors in this paper. The drinking water supply requirement of Alwar city is expected to increased many folds in the future with the population growth. The demand for water in Alwar city is increasing due to increase in population and other reasons. There are many hand pumps, dug wells and tube wells in the Alwar city though which water is being continuously extracted on a large-scale. Drought simply aggravates the problem of over exploitation of these sources. The rate of decline of water level is increased from 0.19 to 1.70 meter per year in the Alwar. The authors have incorporated some suggestions to improve water management system and find out reasons of scarcity of drinking water in Alwar city. Therefore, urgent steps must be taken by Alwar administration otherwise drinking water will become be a big problem in Alwar city.