Abstract
Meinzen-Dick, R., R. Chaturvedi, L. Domènech, R. Ghate, M. A. Janssen, N. D. Rollins, and K. Sandeep. 2016. Games for groundwater governance: field experiments in Andhra Pradesh, India. Ecology and Society 21(3):38.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08416-210338
Highlights
Groundwater use is a pressing issue in global water management
Because social capital is hypothesized to increase collective action (Agrawal 2001), we developed a social capital indicator from the following series of questions on the individual survey: 1. If a neighbor in this village lends some money to another neighbor, it is very likely that the lender gets the money back
15% of the men had not received any formal education in comparison with 45% of the women, and 35% of the men had completed primary school in comparison with 17% of the women
Summary
Groundwater use is a pressing issue in global water management. The key use of groundwater is irrigation, which uses 70% of global freshwater withdrawals, of which 43% is from groundwater (Siebert et al 2010). When juxtaposed against the fact that > 85% of the drinking water requirements in India are met from groundwater (World Bank 2010), there is tremendous pressure on groundwater resources in India. This is reflected in the falling water table levels, indicated in premonsoon decadal trends captured by the Central Ground Water Board (2013): Approximately 50% of the wells tested showed a water table decline, with 36.77% of wells showing a decline of 0–2 m below ground level (bgl), and approximately 13% of wells showing a decline of > 2 m bgl, from 2002 to 2012. 1494 of 4277 blocks (subdistrict administrative units) assessed, or ~26%, fall into the categories of semicritical (using > 70% of net annual groundwater availability), critical (using > 90%), or overexploited (using > 100% of recharge); all of these categories have significant long-term decline in pre- or postmonsoonal water levels
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