%0 Journal Article %T Impact of Forestry Interventions on Groundwater Recharge and Sediment Control in the Ganga River Basin %A Ombir Singh %A Saswat Kumar Kar %A Nimmala Mohan Reddy %J Open Journal of Forestry %P 13-31 %@ 2163-0437 %D 2023 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ojf.2023.131002 %X Water related services of natural infrastructure will help to combat the risk of water crisis, and nature-based solutions involve the management of ecosystems to mimic or optimize the natural processes for the provision and regulation of water. Forested areas provide environmental stability and supply a high proportion of the world’s accessible freshwater for domestic, agricultural, industrial and ecological needs. The present work on “Forestry Interventions for Ganga” to rejuvenate the river is one of the steps toward the Ganga River rejuvenation programme in the country. The consequences of forestry interventions for Ganga will be determined on the basis of water quantity and water quality in the Ganga River. The study conservatively estimated the water savings and sedimentation reduction of the riverscape management in the Ganga basin using the Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) & GEC, 2015 and Trimble, 1999 & CWC, 2019 methodologies, respectively. Forestry plantations and soil and moisture conservation measures devised in the programme to rejuvenate the Ganga River are expected to increase water recharge and decrease sedimentation load by 231.011 MCM·yr^-1 and 1119.6 cubic m·yr^-1 or 395.20 tons·yr^-1, respectively, in delineated riverscape area of 83,946 km² in Ganga basin due to these interventions. The role of trees and forests in improving %K Bioengineering Measures %K Ganga River Basin %K Sediment Control %K Water Harvesting %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=121553