Ground water scenario in Hassan district

Srinivas

doi:10.53989/bu.ge.v8i2.10

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ge.v8i2.10

Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-5

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Ground water scenario in Hassan district

Srinivas¹

¹Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, G.F.G.C, Vijayanagara, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Received Date:28 July 2019, Accepted Date:12 November 2019

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Weathered and fractured gneiss, granite and schist are the major water bearing formations. Alluvial formation of limited thickness and aerial extent is found along the courses of major rivers. Hassan district is situated on old Deccan plateau and south western and interior central part of Karnataka, in terms of latitudinal and longitudinal position of the district; it extends entirely in the southern India. Specific Yield of predominant unconfined aquifers ranges from 1.5 to 2.5% and Transmissivity of aquifers ranges from 2 to 63 m2 /day.

Keywords: Dugwell; Groundwater

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© 2019 Srinivas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka