Floods and droughts are increasing, while groundwater levels decline. Measuring Terrestrial Water Storage helps track these changes.
The Central Ground Water Board has released an atlas marking priority areas for water conservation and ground water replenishment.The atlas provides detailed data on 14 principal and 42 major aquifiers across the country as well as providing in depth analysis about the state of aquifiers in six states including Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya and Tamil Nadu.