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Download Solution PDFWhat percentage of underground water is used for agriculture?
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Bihar STET TGT (Social Science) Official Paper-I (Held On: 08 Sept, 2023 Shift 5)
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Option 4 : 90%
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- Agriculture absorbs roughly 90% of the country's water resources.
- Approximately 90% of India's groundwater is used for agriculture.
- According to a 2022 government assessment, the rate of groundwater extraction in the historic breadbasket states of Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan is more than 100 percent due to unsustainable use of water resources.
- Indeed, in some places, so much water is removed that the ground above depleted aquifers sinks.
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- Currently, 70% of global groundwater withdrawals, and even more in arid and semi-arid regions, are used in agricultural production of food, fibers, cattle, and industrial crops, and this resource services an estimated 38% of the lands fitted for irrigation.
- According to a 2017 analysis by the think tank Niti Aayog, groundwater accounts for 63% of all agricultural water and more than 80% of rural and urban home water supplies.
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