(1) Water is essential for life and is needed in every sphere of life.

(2) To raise crops and earn money, farmers depend on groundwater resources.

(3) With the increase in development activities, new industries are being set up. Industries are the biggest consumers of water resources.

(4) Due to increasing urbanization process, new colonies and buildings are developed. They consume huge amount of water.

(5) Also, farmers and people in general, use their own wells and tube wells for irrigation and domestic purposes.

Groundwater is a highly overused resource because of the following reasons:

(i) Due to large and growing population and consequent greater demands for water and unequal access to it.

(ii) To facilitate higher food grain production for a large population, water resources are being overexploited to expand irrigated areas and dry season agriculture.

(iii) In the housing societies or colonies in the cities, there is an arrangement of own groundwater pumping devices to meet water needs.