CHAPTER 11

Natural Ground-Water Recharge Scenario in Kolkata and a Review of Artificial Recharging

J. Begam, S. Sarkar, S. Sarkar, and S. Bhattacharya

Civil Engineering Department, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, India.

ABSTRACT: This abstract summarizes the preliminary results from groundwater recharge estimates at Kolkata, West Bengal, which is under the Kolkata Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) covering an area of 187.33 sq.km. Water is indispensable to all life on earth. However, freshwater is constantly formed newly through a phenomenon known as hydrological cycle. Groundwater is the source of about 33% of the water that county and city water departments supply to households and businesses. Groundwater recharge is the process by which ...

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