Central Ground Water Board, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India

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State Profile

Ground Water Scenario of Manipur

Area (Sq.km)	22,327
Physiography	Four major units Hills Eroded hills with flat land Intermontane valleys Alluvial plains
Drainage	Mainly drained by river and tributaries of Meghna and Chindwin basin.
Rainfall (mm)	1454( average annual)
Total Districts / Blocks	9 Districts

Hydrogeology

The Manipur valley is underlain by a thin veneer of alluvial deposits, which is largely clayey in nature, underlain by rocks of Tertiary age. Ground water occurs under un-confined and confined conditions. Since the upper formations are mainly silty and clayey, open wells have poor yield prospects. However the deeper zone, consisting of sand stones of Tertiary age, forms good aquifers which are under confined conditions, Autoflow conditions are observed in Imphal where the yield of the tubewells vary from 0.5 to 4 m3/hr. The water bearing formations are not extensive. The quality of ground water is generally good.

Dynamic Ground Water Resources (2011)
Annual Replenishable Ground water Resource	0.44 BCM
Net Annual Ground Water Availability	0.40 BCM
Annual Ground Water Draft	0.004 BCM
Stage of Ground Water Development	1.02 %
Ground Water Development & Management
Over Exploited	NIL
Critical	NIL
Semi- critical	NIL

Artificial Recharge to Ground Water (AR)	Feasible AR structures Check dam-300 Weirs-500 Gabian structure-500 RTRWH-300 Development of springs-150

Ground Water Quality Problems
Contaminants	Districts affected (in part)
Iron (>1.0 mg/l) Arsenic(>0.05 mg/l)	Bishnupur, Thoubal Bishnupur, Thoubal

Central Ground Water Authority

Areas Notified for Regulation of ground water development

NIL

CENTRAL GROUND WATER BOARD