The Andhra Pradesh State Groundwater Department is installing sub-basin equipment and piezometers in the Godavari and Krishna regions to study the groundwater table, under a World Bank-funded National Hydrology Project.
In recent years, there was tremendous pressure on the groundwater table in the Godavari and Krishna districts. In Krishna district’s uplands, the exploitation of groundwater has been banned for all purposes, given the dipping levels of the groundwater table.
East Godavari Groundwater Department Deputy Director P.S. Vijaya said that two regional study facilities (basins) would be established at Gunduru in West Godavari and Musunuru in Krishna district to study the groundwater table.
On Tuesday, the Groundwater Department in collaboration with Adikavi Nannaya University’s Geology Department installed two piezometers on the university campus as part of the National Hydrology Project.
Geology Department (AKNU) Head K. Nookaratnam has said that the new piezometers would be monitored and maintained by the university students.
