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Artificial recharge is needed due to the overuse of water due to rapid industrialization, population increase, intensive agriculture, urbanization. Artificial groundwater recharge is needed in the area of overexploitation of groundwater, desaturation of the aquifer, poor quality of groundwater, saline water intrusion (coastal belt), and drying of wells and pumps during the lean period. Groundwater can be artificially recharged directly by redirecting water across the land surface through contour bunding, percolation tank, check dam, dug out pond; and indirectly through recharge shafts, injection wells, and subsurface dykes.