Sustainability of Groundwater Sources in Climate Resilient Cities

As surface waterbodies get increasingly polluted, depleted or built over by rapacious builders and planners, cities have turned to groundwater to meet their needs. But groundwater is not an infinite resource if it is extracted mindlessly, without making any efforts to recharge it – which is what many cities have been doing. This has led to plunging groundwater levels at a time when the world is struggling to withstand the threat of climate change: changing and erratic rainfall patterns, reduced numbers of rainy days, vagaries like drought, and immense pressure on limited resources due to galloping demand have become the order of the day.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) offers a new shortterm online training course on managing groundwater in cities in a sustainable manner and ensuring that they become climate-resilient. The course will offer in-depth insights as well as broader overviews of a number of topics, from aquifer mapping and locating potential recharge zones to understanding rainfall patterns, soils and hydrogeology of the area, among other things.

WHAT THE TRAINING WILL COVER

• Challenges of managing groundwater in urban centres of the Global South
• Traditional water harvesting systems in different ecological regions in India and other countries of the Global South -- overview
• Basics of aquifer systems
• Water budgeting at the city level
• Aquifer mapping and locating groundwater recharge zones in cities using advanced tools
• Developing a decision matrix to choose sustainable structures for groundwater recharge
• Monitoring of groundwater – quantity and quality  Success stories on groundwater management

FOR MORE DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT

TRAINING COORDINATOR

Vivek Kumar Sah
Programme Officer
Water Programme, CSE
+91-9708887214
vivek.sah@cseindia.org