Integrated Groundwater Resource Development in Hard Rock Area and Its Management - a Case Study

Increasing population growth worldwide is putting increasing pressure on water resources. In arid and semi area pressure goes to groundwater. Keeping in view havoc capability of remote sensing and GIS, a study for the integrated groundwater development has been under taken in part of Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The Satellite data of IRS -IC and ID have been used to prepare the hydrogeomorphology, lineament, landuse map. Overburden thickness map was prepared by conducting vertical electrical sounding (VES) using Schlumberger configuration in the study area. All the thematic maps were digitally prepared in GIS environment. The integration of multigeodata technique using arc/info has been applied to have a composite groundwater potential map with the use of four themes i.e. hydrogeomorphology, lineament, overburden thickness and slope. Integrated potential map comprises of four potential classes viz. excellent, good, moderate and poor according to their groundwater potentiality. The integrated groundwater potential map has been overlaid with the landuse map and disparities related to the landuse practices at the study area were studied.