Using animals to draw underground water

Hand pump

Various ways of tapping water.

Long wait for water—What do they do?How do they get water?

JAL MAHAL

INDIRA GANDHI CANAL

INDIRA GANDHI CANAL

INDIRA GANDHI CANALIndira Gandhi Canal is one of the biggest canal

projects in India. It starts from the Harike Barrage, a few kilometers below the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in Punjab state. It runs south-southwest in Punjab and Haryana but mainly in Rajasthan for total 650 kilometers and terminates near Jaisalmer, in Rajasthan.

Its construction started in 1958. It is built with the aim to convert the part of Thar desert from wasteland to agriculturally productive area. It was earlier known as Rajasthan Canal. The name was changed in 1984.

It uses water released from Pong dam and will provide irrigation facilities to the north-western region of Rajasthan, i.e., a part of the Thar Desert. It consists of Rajasthan feeder canal (with the first 167 km in Punjab and Haryana and the remaining 37 km in Rajasthan) and 445 km in Rajasthan main canal entirely in Rajasthan.

JAWAHAR SAGAR DAM

Jawahar Sagar DamJump to: navigation, searchJawai dam is a dam built across

the Jawai river, a tributary of Luni river. The dam is situated near Sumerpur town in Pali District of Rajasthan state in India.

The dam was built by the rulers of Marwar. It is the main water supply source for Jodhpur city and parts of Pali district. Some villages of Jalore district and Pali district get water for irrigation from the Jawai dam.

Jawahar Sagar Dam is a dam across the Chambal River. It is situated 24 kilometres south-west of Kota, RajasthanRana Pratap Sagar dam is a dam located 52 km downstream of Gandhi Sagar dam on across the Chambal River near Rawatbhata in Chittorgarh district in Rajasthan. It was completed in the year 1970 and it is the second in the series of Chambal Valley Projects,

It is 54 meters high. Rajasthan State has a 50% share in the power generation of this station.

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AGRA CANALAgra CanalAgra Canal headworks, 1871.The Agra Canal is an important Indian irrigation work

which starts from Gurgaon in Haryana [1], opened in 1874.

In the beginning, it was available for navigation, in Delhi, Gurgaon, Mathura and Agra Districts, and Bharatpur State, which was stopped in 1904.The Canal receives its water from the Yamuna River at Okhla, about ten miles below in Delhi. The weir across the Yamuna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand; it is about 800-yard long, and rises seven-feet above the summer level of the river.

From Okhla the canal follows the high land between the Khari-Nadi and the Yamuna and finally joins the Banganga river about 20 miles below Agra. Navigable branches connect the canal with Mathura and Agra

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Rana Pratap Sagar damRana Pratap Sagar dam is a dam located 52 km downstream of

Gandhi Sagar dam on across the Chambal River near Rawatbhata in Chittorgarh district in Rajasthan. It was completed in the year 1970 and it is the second in the series of Chambal Valley Projects,

It is 54 meters high. Rajasthan State has a 50% share in the power generation of this station.

Kota BarrageKota Barrage is the fourth in the series of Chambal Valley

Projects, located about 0.8 km upstream of Kota City in Rajasthan. Water released after power generation at Gandhi Sagar dam, Rana Pratap Sagar dam and Jawahar Sagar Dams, is diverted by Kota Barrage for irrigation in Rajasthan and in Madhya Pradesh through canals on the left and the right sides of the river. The work on this dam was completed in 1960.

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Water Resources, June 2005From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search