90 % of salinity problems are man made across the world and we must find out solution by judicious use of ground water in preventing coastal salinity as well as inland salinity. Punjab, the green bowl of South Asia was once a barren land and people were nomadic in this region But after East India Company focused on irrigation and progressive farmers settled here, it was converted in to a totally different zone. How ever this area is facing salinity problems due to over exploitation of surface as well as ground water; as Said by Mr. Tushar Shah; Senior fellow at International Water Management Institute (IWMI) at National Workshop on ‘Coastal Salinity Management Strategies’.
