• Ashutosh kumar
• Santosh Kumar

Water is most precious natural resource on this Earth. It is an essential part of civilized modern life. It is used in drinking, bathing, washing, irrigation, industrial and a host of other works. Availability of water is both from surface water as well as ground water. In the modern age, the use of water in different purposes has to such an extent that its scarcity has posed a major problem to be faced by the dwellers in the urban and rural areas. The traditional flood irrigation in India as well as Pakur, accounts for huge water loss through unscientific ways and from other ways. This system could be replaced by drip irrigation/spray irrigation, shower irrigation. Pakur District is situated in Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand state. It is a part of Rajmahal Highlands. The terrain is undulating made up of hard rocks, mostly granitic and basaltic; the amount of surface water & groundwater is very limited. Therefore the use and demand of water in so many purposes has drawn the attention of Planners, administrators, Scientists to chalk out the strategy and planning for conservation & management of these vital resources. The crisis of groundwater resource is concerned with the sustained yield of wells and aquifers, maintaining the balance between discharge and recharge and its quality for optimum utilization in different sectors of economy. The groundwater is more widely utilized and is easily available than surface water in study area due to better aquifer’s characteristics. But rapid growth of population, modernization of agricultural activities, use of chemical fertilizers and HYVs altogether has encouraged the over-exploitation of groundwater resources. Some blocks of the study area have come into the critical category of stage of groundwater development. The main purpose of this research paper is to find out the to assess the groundwater resources of Pakur district which includes the groundwater crisis in reference to hydro-geologic conditions, water level characteristics, estimation of future requirements of groundwater resources through conjunctive use of surface and groundwater.

Essential, Management, Groundwater, Aquifers, Utilization, Hydro-geologic. Resource, Conservation, Management, Groundwater, Hard rock,Terrain , irrigation.

"GROUNDWATER CRISIS A NATURAL HAZARDS FOR AGRICULTURE: A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY FOR PAKUR DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.2082-2092, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905T95.pdf

"GROUNDWATER CRISIS A NATURAL HAZARDS FOR AGRICULTURE: A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY FOR PAKUR DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp2082-2092, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905T95.pdf