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Recharge rebound: new water supply enables more extraction unless demand rules exist

#00178

Watershed and recharge structures often trigger more irrigation and private pumping rather than restored water tables. Maharashtra's audit of a Rs 9,634 crore watershed program found no significant groundwater improvement in sampled villages while water-hungry crops expanded.

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