Abstract
The estimation of climatic alteration influencing on groundwater recharge will help to prepare a future plan for groundwater development and management planning for the basin. It will also be helpful for agriculture as well as other resource planning. The required shift in cropping pattern can also be judged. The study was undertaken for Shetrunji river basin having an area of 5646.98 km2. The entire area was found consisting of 17 watersheds. The climate change impact on Rainfall, Runoff and estimated groundwater recharge by 3 different methods were assessed. The groundwater recharge varied from 3.11% to 49.28%, 0% to 15.34% and 0.72% to 14.62% of rainfall by water balance, Krishna Rao (1970) and water table variation respectively. The climate change impacts favors to increase the rainfall significantly in 6 out of 17 watersheds while the runoff is found increasing in 5 out of 17 watersheds of the basin. The rainfall and runoff was influenced by the climate change in Northern part of upper reach and southernmost part of middle reach of basin. The area weighted rainfall of the Shetrunji river basin was found increasing significantly. The areal mean depth of monsoon runoff for entire Shetrunji basin was increasing significantly at the rate of 17.7 mm per decade. The groundwater recharge assessed by water balance method was found higher as compared to Krishna Rao (1970) and water level fluctuation method. The groundwater recharge expected by water balance, Krishna Rao (1970) and water level fluctuation methods is found to be enlarged in 13, 9 and 6 watersheds out of 17 watershed of the basin. The areal mean depth of groundwater recharge in Shetrunji basin during monsoon season in water level fluctuation method was found increasing significantly at the rate of 13.01 mm per decade due to climate change impacts.
Highlights
About sixty-seven percent of irrigation water applied to crop through runoff and evaporation
The drainage and watershed map of the Shetrunji river basin were prepared by remote sensing and GIS having maximum stream order of basin is 7
The entire basin was found consisting of 17 watershed which were named as 5G2B2a, 5G2B2b, 5G2B2c, 5G2B3a, 5G2B3b, 5G2B3c, 5G2B4a, 5G2B4b, 5G2B4c, 5G2B5a, 5G2B5b, 5G2B5c, 5G2B5d, 5G2B6a, 5G2B6b, Basin Monsoon RO(mm)
Summary
About sixty-seven percent of irrigation water applied to crop through runoff and evaporation. The evaporation is significant component of irrigation efficiency, not much attention has been given to it. Irrigation water applied in agriculture is based on experience of farmer. Evaporation component should be incorporated in development of any irrigation project or plan. The plant losses their water through the process of evaporation and transpiration. Evapotranspiration (ET) the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from the soil and other surfaces and by transpiration from plants Potential evapotranspiration is the rate at which the amount of evaporation that would occur if a sufficient water source were available
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