Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Multi-Influencing Factors (MIF) based Assessment of the Groundwater Potential Zone: A case Study in Arpa River Basin Bilaspur City, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

Abstract Groundwater potential area is a demanding and challenging issue to sustain human life. Where our population increases, the water demand also increases and this creates a water crisis. There is an ever-increasing need for innovative technologies to manage our water resources and meet surface water demands. Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the Innovative technologies, using which surface water management can be done easily. So groundwater is an extremely demandable focus and necessitates groundwater potential zone analysis. This study waw carried out through different layers(Soil, Aspect, Drain Density, Geology, Geomorphology, Lithology, Slope, Lineament, Hillshade, LULC, and Rainfall) and GIS environment, and groundwater potential zones have been detected for this Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), and Multi-Influencing Factors (MIF) were used in the Arpa basin of Bilaspur city, Chhattisgarh, India and found that MIF is more reliable than AHP in this study. The results of the present work may help the agro-climatic investigators, policymakers, decision-makers, and administrators for sustainable observation of the groundwater potential zones of Arpa River basin.