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However, in more than two years of notifying the rule, fewer than 100 NOCs have been issued by the Authority for the extraction of groundwater for commercial purposes in Bengaluru. This year, only nine NOCs have been issued so far.
The district water resources department has already urged the civic body to judiciously use water considering the delay in the onset of monsoon. It wants to ensure that the water lasts till August 15 as compared to the usual deadline of July 15.
That dusty patch of white behind me is where the water should be. with reservoirs running dry, farmers are turning to groundwater. over time, groundwater accumulates in vast underground aquifers. but no you, over the past few years, groundwater levels have dropped 50 feet or more as farmers drill deeper and deeper to access it. >> today we do set in law a framework that has been resisted for long, long time. since before my father was even governor. >> reporter: just last year, california became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. the state's first-ever mandatory water re...
Historic lows. that means the state's reservoirs are in trouble. >> i'm standing in front of peter's canyon reservoir and that dusty patch of white behind me is where the water should be. with reservoirs running dry, farmers are turning to groundwater. over time, groundwater accumulates in vast underground aquifers. but no you, over the past few years, groundwater levels have dropped 50 feet or more as farmers drill deeper and deeper to access it. >> today we do set in law a framework that has been resisted for long, long time. since before my father was even governor. >> reporter: just last y...
>> i'm standing in front of peter's canyon reservoir and that dusty patch of white behind me is where the water should be. with reservoirs running dry, farmers are turning to groundwater. over time, groundwater accumulates in vast underground aquifers. but no you, over the past few years, groundwater levels have dropped 50 feet or more as farmers drill deeper and deeper to access it. >> today we do set in law a framework that has been resisted for long, long time. since before my father was even governor. >> reporter: just last year, california became the last state in the west to regulate gro...