Bhujal Abhiyan is a community of citizens and social workers supported by technical experts in hydrology, geology, and hydrogeology who partner together for achieving their common objectives of conservation, protection, preservation, and sustainable use of groundwater in India.
Rampant digging of borewells and uncontrolled extraction of groundwater by motor pumps has depleted groundwater to precarious levels in urban and rural India
Groundwater reserves are found in unconfined (shallow) aquifers and confined (deeper) aquifers, both of which have been impacted by deforestation, excavation, urban densification, carpeting, paving of open soil with concrete thereby obliterating natural recharge areas and depleting aquifers..