ROHTAK, July 30 -- Despite multiple initiatives to conserve groundwater, Haryana continues to overexploit its aquifers, extracting 136.75% of its annually replenishable groundwater, more than twice the national average of 60.63%.

According to the 2025 groundwater assessment, tabled in the Rajya Sabha by the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti, Haryana remains the country's third-most groundwater-stressed state, after Punjab and Rajasthan and continues to be classified as an 'over-exploited' state.

Punjab remains the country's most groundwater-stressed state with extraction at 156.36%, followed by Rajasthan at 147.11%.

The report shows Haryana's Stage of Groundwater Extraction (SoE), which is a measure of annual groundwater extraction for all ...