Interlinking of Lakes with Emphasis of Groundwater Recharge under the Climate Change Impact

Abstract

The rise in global air temperatures in recent decades has significantly affected climate patterns. Global climate models predict that by the close of this era, the average global temperature will have grown by an additional 0.6 to 4.0°C, based on scientific evidence. Groundwater recharge may be significantly impacted by climate change. India's growing water scarcity and excessive groundwater resource extraction in many regions have made groundwater recharge a major problem. Waterways have long been used to link different basins, a practice dating back to ancient civilizations. Large-scale inter-basin transmission is a notion that has been discussed for a while. Concrete measures on river and water body conservation and renaturalization, augmenting water reserves and groundwater infiltration, and increasing water usage efficiency were proposed by the Maharashtra State Adaptation Action Plan on Climate Change (MSAAPCC) for the water resources field. It is anticipated that additional research in these areas would support improved policymaking for the managing water resources. Present study shows a review onInterlinking of Lakes with Emphasis of Groundwater Recharge under Climate Change Impact. The assessment relies on peer-reviewed articles indexed in different journals, unpublished thesis and some report articles. The papers reviewed advocated that interlinking lakes could help optimize water resource management and improve groundwater recharge in regions facing water scarcity. It has been also observed that the practice of a spatially distinctive hydrological model is a useful contrivance for assessing sway of climate change on groundwater recharge.