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Rainwater Harvesting and The Deccan Basalts

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Rainwater harvesting within the Deccan basaltic terrain is not really as simple as it is assumed to be. As mentioned in the earlier chapter, come summer the news articles in daily newspapers, regarding failed borewells, falling water table, insufficient water from borewells in major cities within the Deccan basaltic province is of common occurrence. This is not surprising, as the Deccan basalts are one of the most enigmatic rocks and pose a very difficult task where it comes to groundwater exploration and naturally also for groundwater recharge, especially in the urban areas where due to constraint of space one needs to resort to borewells for recharge purpose.

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Lalwani, A. (2022). Rainwater Harvesting and The Deccan Basalts. In: Rainwater Harvesting. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05710-6_4

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