CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON GROUNDWATER TABLE FLUCTUATION IN PRECAMBRIAN TERRAIN OF CHITRADURGA DISTRICT, KARNATAKA, INDIA USING GEOMATICS APPLICATION

The study area falls within the semiarid region and frequently facing water scarcity problems. Rain is a form of precipitation, snow, sleet, hail and dew. The precipitation occurs when separate drops of waterfalls on the earth’s surface from clouds. Not all rain reaches the surface, however; some evaporates while falling through dry air, a type of precipitation called Virga. The precipitated water percolates to deeper zones to be stored as groundwater. The present study generates the primary data to map the groundwater table fluctuation in hard rock terrain of Chitradurga District through Geomatics technique.