Our Objectives

“The Bhujal Abhiyan Foundation brings people, businesses, and communities from diverse backgrounds together through local groundwater education and action, helping to make us all part of the solution to clean, sustainable groundwater.”

  • Bhujal Abhiyan aims to address the issue of constricted demand for groundwater extraction, as this will usually contribute more to achieving groundwater balance and will always be needed in more dry regions and densely populated areas in the long run. In this regard, the notion of real water savings is critical. These savings only include reductions in evaporation (consumptive use) and loss to saline water bodies, not leading to a reduction that would have resulted in aquifer recharge.
  • Develop the organization as a model and introduce it to other cities in the developed areas to support the development of similar organizations in design and purpose.

In some cases, Bhujal Abhiyan focuses on improving irrigation water-use efficiency while also generating water-saving improvements. -use productivity and farmer incomes, which result in a worsening of the groundwater resource balance as a result of:

1. Replacing major groundwater irrigation-return flows with increased field-level evaporation/evapotranspiration (in spray irrigation) (occurring in flood irrigation).

2.Enabling the expansion of irrigation command and the actual area under cultivation (due to the capacity of pressurized water delivery).

3.Making it possible for farmers to deepen wells and pump groundwater against higher hydraulic heads by facilitating the introduction of higher-value crops. 

The use of groundwater and surface water in tandem, taking advantage of the comparative advantages of both, is referred to as conjunctive use in the Bhujal Abhiyan.

Examples include:

-using surface water for inefficient flood irrigation to boost aquifer recharge during the wet season.

-using groundwater for irrigation during dry periods to supplement the normal surface water supply.