Government orders issued from time to time have recommended need based water supply, conjunctive use of surface and groundwater and rostering to check irregular and unrestrained extraction of groundwater, but the state's water table continues to go down alarmingly by 0.4 metre to 1 metre every year.

State government has enforced groundwater policy while UP Groundwater Conservation, Protection and Development (Management, Control and Regulation) (draft) Bill 2010 is pending. Sources in UP groundwater department said the bill is part of policy and will be enforced sooner than later............Read more

Source web page: Times of India