CIDSA Jala Groundwater & Recharge Intelligence

Most Indian farms are quietly mining their groundwater — water tables drop 4-7 metres per decade across the Deccan and the Indo-Gangetic plains, and nobody notices until the borewell goes dry. Jala Groundwater & Recharge Intelligence wires every farm borewell with a low-cost pressure transducer, builds a continuous draw-down ledger by block, models recharge from on-farm structures (check dams, percolation tanks, contour bunds, farm ponds, recharge wells), and surfaces a single number every season: net aquifer balance in metres. When the balance turns positive, the farm has become net water-positive — a credential that increasingly matters for ESG reporting, water credits, and crop-insurance underwriting.