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title: Cost Effectiveness of Rainwater Harvesting for Groundwater  Recharge in Micro-Watersheds of Kolar District of India: The Case  Study of Thotli Micro-Watershed
creator: Nagaraj, N
creator: Pradhani, U
creator: Chengappa, P G
creator: Basavaraj, G
creator: Kanwar, R
subject: Watershed Management
description: This study has estimated the supply augmentation of groundwater recharge due to creation of water  harvesting structures and has assessed the cost-effectiveness of rainwater harvesting for groundwater  recharge on watershed basis in one of the sub-watersheds of the Kolar district, Peninsular India — a  typically hard-rock area. The study is based on the primary data for the year 2008-09 collected from a  sample of 90 farmers having irrigation bore-wells in the selected watershed named Thotli. The study has  indicated that the annual draft of irrigation water exceeds the annual recharge, causing a negative balance.  On an average, the returns per rupee investment have been found to be ` 1.80 on farm pond, ` 1.78 on  recharge pit and ` 1.39 on field bund. The cost incurred to impound a metre cube of water has been found  as ` 3.01 in the case of field bund, where estimated recharge benefit is 5.6 m3, ` 1.67 /m3 in the case of  recharge pit (with an estimated recharge benefit of 720 m3), and ` 1.33 /m3 in the case of farm pond (recharge  benefit of 1350 m3). The discounted cost-benefit analysis of the investment on water harvesting structures  has indicated that the investment on water harvesting structures is cost-effective and financially-viable.
publisher: Agricultural Economics Research Association
date: 2011
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/5447/1/Cost%20Effectiveness%20of%20Rainwater.pdf
identifier:   Nagaraj, N and Pradhani, U and Chengappa, P G and Basavaraj, G and Kanwar, R  (2011) Cost Effectiveness of Rainwater Harvesting for Groundwater Recharge in Micro-Watersheds of Kolar District of India: The Case Study of Thotli Micro-Watershed.  Agricultural Economics Research Review, 24.   ISSN 0974-0279     
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