The state government will take up check dams on a large scale to improve groundwater table and prevent rainwater from going waste.
The state government issued orders to the department to focus on the construction of check dams especially in the areas where there is steep fall in groundwater table in the district.
Keeping in mind the prevailing severe drought in the state, the state government has taken a decision to improve the ground water table. For this, it will encourage rainwater harvesting pits at individual level and check-dams at the community level.
Already, the district administration has started encouraging construction of rainwater harvesting pits in the government offices and police department also doing the same in their police stations.
Experts say that even streams and rivulets will not go dry if there were check dam on them and ground water table will increase manyfold in that area. This would be more helpful to the farmers as most of them set up agricultures motors in the streams or rivulets and supply water to their agriculture fields.
The state government is also planning to construct check dams at the bridges on the rivers and streams and rivulets.
The state government will also strictly impose the rule of having rainwater harvesting pits giving permission for the constructing new buildings so that groundwater table will get a boost with the rainwater at least in the premises of a house or its surroundings.
People who had experience d severe drought and drinking water problems this season to seem to have realized the importance of having the rain harvesting pits to have sufficient water and to avoid drinking water problems even during the hot summer.
Krishnakanth Goud of Vidyanagar in Adilabad town said ‘they have decided to construct a rain harvesting pit in his house as they have been facing severe drinking water problem for the first time this summer’.
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