Community approach of groundawter management - Empirical evidence from some states of India

Groundwater has emerged as a critical issue for cities and towns in India. The most serious groundwater challenge facing the state is not in developing the resource but in its sustainable management. At present different issues related groundwater has been emerged and threatens for irrigation in agriculture sector. In broader context, groundwater governance deals with the Institutions (formal and informal), policies and acts. This thematic article is presenting the description of groundwater institutions in which community involvement and government policies will be mentioned. The main purpose of this paper is to find out that how farmer community have organized themselves for sustainable use of natural resource groundwater within such constraints in some states of India. To fulfill this objective, content analysis has been used in this article