GUJARTAT CM & PM Candidate Modi’s VISION in WATER MAGEMENT, A GREEN RISING !! Gujarat has set the finest example of groundwater management” Government -Public initiatives in Gujarat pack a lesson in groundwater management for the entire country by blending indigenous methods with modern technologies!! In 2004, the water table of 112 tehsils of the total 225 tehsils in Gujarat was in semi-critical to over-exploited condition. But a satellite based survey done last year by the Central Ground Water Board (NGWB) found that as many as 60 of these 112 tehsils have regained their normal water table. Whats more, the water table is rising further in many of these tehsils. Most of these tehsils are in Saurashtra and Kutch where the farmers and the government together have started a unique check dam revolution. In the mid-90s, large parts of Saurashtra used to get water through train tankers from water-abundant areas of central and south Gujarat. Today it is a thing of the past. Earlier, many small rivers and rivulets in this region used to go dry by the end of monsoon. Now they have become almost perennial and several villages have become self-sufficient in water.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 06:23:31 +0000
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