Scribd
Upload
30 views16 pages

Artificial Recharge of Ground Water

The document discusses artificial groundwater recharge including its need, advantages, identification of recharge areas, sources of water, and various recharge methods like channel spreading, ditch and furrow, recharge shafts, lateral recharge shafts, injection wells, and induced recharge.

Uploaded by

amit garsa
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
30 views16 pages

Artificial Recharge of Ground Water

The document discusses artificial groundwater recharge including its need, advantages, identification of recharge areas, sources of water, and various recharge methods like channel spreading, ditch and furrow, recharge shafts, lateral recharge shafts, injection wells, and induced recharge.

Uploaded by

amit garsa
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 16

ARTIFICIAL

RECHARGE OF
GROUND WATER
Presentation

Presented By-
on Presented To-

Praveen Kumar
A Project Report Md. Zeeshan Khan

19CE125L Assistant Professor


INTRODUCTION
 Ground water recharge is the process by which water percolates down to the soil and reaches the water table,
either by natural or artificial method.

 The term artificial mean directly to human interference, artificial recharge method involve measures for
infiltration of water into pervious underground formations, to augment the yield capacity of these formations.
The quality of the infiltrated water improves in most respects, and the storage capacity of the formation can be
used to ensure availability of water collected in the wet season, for use in dry periods.

 Artificial recharge has now been accepted world-wide as a cost-effective method to augment ground water
resources in areas where continued overexploitation without due regard to their recharging options has resulted
in various undesirable environmental consequences.
NEED FOR ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE
 Occurrence of rainfall in India is mostly limited to about three months in a year. The natural recharge to
ground water reservoir is restricted to this period only in a major part of the country. Artificial recharge
techniques aim at extending the recharge period in the post-monsoon season for about three or more months,
resulting in enhanced sustainability of ground water sources during the lean season.

 In areas where climatic conditions are not favorable for creating surface storage, artificial recharge techniques
have to be adopted for diverting most of the surface storage to the ground water reservoirs within the shortest
possible time.

Purposes and Principles of Artificial


Recharge
A large percentage of artificial recharge projects are designed to replenish ground water resources in depleted aquifers
and to conserve water for future use.
ADVANTAGES OF ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE
 Subsurface storage space is available free of cost and inundation is avoided

 Evaporation losses are negligible

 Quality improvement by infiltration through the permeable media

 Biological purity is very high

 It has no adverse social impacts such as displacement of population, loss of scarce agricultural land etc.

 Temperature variations are minimum

 It is environment friendly, controls soil erosion and flood and provides sufficient soil moisture even during summer months

 Water stored underground is relatively immune to natural and man-made catastrophes

 It provides a natural distribution system between recharge and discharge points

 Results in energy saving due to reduction in suction and delivery head as a result of rise in water levels
IDENTIFICATION OF AREAS FOR RECHARGE

 Where ground water levels are declining due to over-exploitation

 Where substantial part of the aquifer has already been DE saturated i.e. regeneration of water in wells and hand

pumps is slow after some water has been drawn.

 Where availability of water from wells and hand pumps is inadequate during the lean months.

 Where ground water quality is poor and there is no alternative source of water
SOURCES OF WATER FOR RECHARGE
 Precipitation (rainfall) over the demarcated area

 Large roof areas from where rainwater can be collected and diverted for recharge

 Canals from large reservoirs from which water can be made available for recharge

 Natural streams from which surplus water can be diverted for recharge, without

violating the rights of other users

 Properly treated municipal and industrial wastewaters. This water should be used only

after ascertaining its quality


METHODS OF ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE
CHANNEL SPREADING
DITCH AND FURROW METHOD
This involves constructing small ‘L’ shaped bunds In areas with irregular topography, shallow, flat-bottomed and
within a stream channel so that water moves closely spaced ditches or furrows provide maximum water contact
along a longer path thereby improving natural area for recharge water from source stream or canal. This
recharge as shown in Figure technique requires less soil preparation than the recharge basins
and is less sensitive to silting.
RECHARGE OF DUG WELLS THROUGH
ROOF TOP RAIN WATER HARVESTING
RECHARGE
SHAFT
VERTICAL RECHARGE SHAFT
Without Injection well With Injection Well
Ideally suited for deep water levels (up to 15 m bgl). In this technique an injection well of 100-150 mm
diameter is constructed at the bottom of the shaft
piercing through the layers of impermeable horizon to
the potential aquifers to be reached about 3 to l5 m
below the water level
LATERAL RECHARGE SHAFT
Ideally suited for areas where permeable sandy
horizon is within 3 m below ground level and
continues up to the water level – under unconfined
conditions.
• Copious water available can be easily recharged
due to large storage and recharge potential
• Silt water can be easily recharged
• 2 to 3 m wide and 2 to 3 m deep trench is
excavated, length of which depends on the
volume of water to be handled.
• With and without injection well
ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE THROUGH
INJECTION WELLS
Injection wells are structures

similar to a tube well but with the

purpose of augmenting the

ground water storage of a

confined aquifer by pumping in

treated surface water under

pressure
INDUCED RECHARGE
It is an indirect method of

artificial recharge involving

pumping from aquifer,

hydraulically connected with

surface water, to induce recharge

to the ground water reservoir


CONCLUSION
 The present techniques are easy, cost-effective and sustainable in the long term. Many of these
can be adopted by the individuals, rural and urban communities with locally available
materials and manpower. Though ground water recharge scheme either naturally or artificially
may not be the final answer, but they do call for the community effort and create the spirit of
cooperation needed to subsequently manage sustain ably ground water as a community
resource.
Y O U
A N K
TH

You might also like