With a few good years of rainfall and a significant rise in water distributed through the canals,Gujarat’s water security scenariois better off now than it was a decade ago.
However, even today, 16 of the 33 districts including Ahmedabad are ‘water deficient’ in terms of their demand and supply.
A study titled ‘Building Informed and Scalable Water Security solutions for Gujarat,’ carried out by Development Support Centre (DSC) and other NGOs, assessed the groundwater, surface water, crop pattern and water quality among other parameters based on both primary and secondary data to estimate the demand-supply gap and the way forward.