The capital recharged 0.34 billion cubic metres (bcm) of groundwater (34,190.47 cubic hectare metres or ham) during the year but extracted 34,453.58 ham, making the extraction rate 100.77%.

Bhubaneswar: Water level has depleted by an average of 0.53 metres below ground level in the last five years, while the extraction of groundwater is gradually increasing in the state, chief ...