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Over the last few decades, a steep general decline in the groundwater table is being observed in the western Ganga Plains (India), the average rate being about 0.15m/year. The area comprises of dominantly vast stretches of alluvial plains within which there occur three major paleochannels of the Ganga river, characterized by serpentine-meandering pattern and having an average width of almost 4–6km...