B.C. has been working to bring people who use groundwater into the licensing system introduced with the 2016 legislation.

India is the largest pumper of groundwater in the world, pumping twice that of the USA and 6 times that of Western Europe, pumps around 75 acre inches per well from around 30 million irrigation ...

New model sheds light on groundwater declines by linking irrigation decisions and groundwater use Date: November 20, 2024 Source: Oregon State University Summary: Sustainable rates of groundwater ...

The act, which came into effect in 2016, requires groundwater users in the province to get a licence and pay fees for purposes such as irrigation, commercial and industrial use — but some ...

Irrigation accounts for about 70 percent of global groundwater withdrawals, and the researchers found that rapidly declining groundwater levels were “virtually absent” in uncultivated lands.

Researchers have found that rust-coated irrigation pivots could signal an absence of nitrate in nearby groundwater -- and position them as a guidepost when monitoring for the contaminant, which ...

Visakhapatnam: A recent groundwater resource assessment has estimated Andhra Pradesh's annual groundwater extraction in 2024 ...

According to the agriculture ministry, Iraq cultivated 3.1 million dunums (775,000 hectares) this winter using groundwater and modern irrigation systems, while the rivers watered only two million ...

The initiative leases desert land to farmers at a symbolic price of one dollar per dunum (0.25 hectares in Iraq's measurement), provides subsidised irrigation systems, and buys their harvest at a ...

Christian Siderius and Declan Conway highlight some of the barriers and opportunities to achieving more sustainable water use in the ‘breadbasket’ of India, at a time of unrest among many farmers ...

Officials don't always know who is using groundwater, how much they're using, or where they're drawing it from, experts say.