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Jalyukta Shivar makes available 3,960 TCM of water in district
Abhilash Botekar| TNN | Jul 16, 2016, 06.02 PM IST.
NASHIK: The Jalyukta Shivar works carried out in Nashik district across the 15 talukas has resulted in tapping of 3,960 thousand cubic meter of water in the villages which will be locally available for them.
The district administration spear headed the move of carrying out measures to ensure the farmers have water at their disposal and which alone can guarantee the farmer that he can take crops in his field. While the drought had made this impossible, even otherwise the water would simply run down the hills of the slope with the ground water unable to recharge the aquifers.
Sensing the need to arrest water in the fields and not allowing it to reach the river from where the water is likely to move down the streams and into the dams, the government carried out the Jalyukta Shivar in which the nallahs and the pick-up weirs, the check dams, the cement plug dams were deepened by removing of the silt from the structures which was further utilised in the farms.
But the work in Nashik district has been very significant in the case and the government as well as the private help resulted in extraction of the 39.61 lakh cubic meter of silt from the areas of villages where there has been perennial shortage of water as a result of which every summer these villages didn't have water and they would be supplied water through the tankers.
"At this point of time all the Jalyukta Shivar structures (95 percent) have got water because of good rainfall during the last week. Now all these structures have arrested water which will seep down the soil and recharge the ground water levels. Hitherto, this water would usually run down through nallahs and then into the river downstream. Only about five percent of water of the rains would have been naturally tapped," GM Gadikar, deputy collector, monitoring the activity said.
This means nearly five times the usual water is now available to the farmers in their farmlands.
"We expect three to four such bouts of rainfall and this will result in at least twice the amount of water being arrested and percolated. The groundwater levels when measures post-monsoon this year will see exceptional cases this year. All this 3,960 thousand cubic meter of water and two more such bouts means the water will be available at the farmers disposal at the push of a button," another officer said.
The district administration spear headed the move of carrying out measures to ensure the farmers have water at their disposal and which alone can guarantee the farmer that he can take crops in his field. While the drought had made this impossible, even otherwise the water would simply run down the hills of the slope with the ground water unable to recharge the aquifers.
Sensing the need to arrest water in the fields and not allowing it to reach the river from where the water is likely to move down the streams and into the dams, the government carried out the Jalyukta Shivar in which the nallahs and the pick-up weirs, the check dams, the cement plug dams were deepened by removing of the silt from the structures which was further utilised in the farms.
But the work in Nashik district has been very significant in the case and the government as well as the private help resulted in extraction of the 39.61 lakh cubic meter of silt from the areas of villages where there has been perennial shortage of water as a result of which every summer these villages didn't have water and they would be supplied water through the tankers.
"At this point of time all the Jalyukta Shivar structures (95 percent) have got water because of good rainfall during the last week. Now all these structures have arrested water which will seep down the soil and recharge the ground water levels. Hitherto, this water would usually run down through nallahs and then into the river downstream. Only about five percent of water of the rains would have been naturally tapped," GM Gadikar, deputy collector, monitoring the activity said.
This means nearly five times the usual water is now available to the farmers in their farmlands.
"We expect three to four such bouts of rainfall and this will result in at least twice the amount of water being arrested and percolated. The groundwater levels when measures post-monsoon this year will see exceptional cases this year. All this 3,960 thousand cubic meter of water and two more such bouts means the water will be available at the farmers disposal at the push of a button," another officer said.
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