Limited Water Resources

Can we imagine life without water? Water is a very precious and limited vital natural
resource. The demand of water for development of agricultural, industrial, urban use
and power generation is increasing at very fast rate. Wise use of these resources
should really be the concern of all people, whether they are involved in agricultural
production activities or not. By accepting it, we can manage to conserve soil and
water effectively, then there will be measurable effect on the development of country.
Watershed resources play a significant role in the development of a country
depending on the location of a watershed; we can get water for domestic, agriculture
and industrial uses. It is for this purpose, proper evolution and management of water
resources acquires significant importance. Detailed survey work is carried out to find
points of equal elevation, ridges and valleys. The reduced levels obtained from this
survey were plotted to obtain contour plan. Three main valleys, which yield the
water, were obtained from contour map.
The water from these valleys in rainy season is not conserved and gets wasted, and
adverse effects are seen such as soil erosion and gully formation. Conversely, if we
save and utilize this water there will be proper soil conservation and recharging
ground water table will be possible. According to the slopes found on contour plan,
various soil and water are constructed in our watershed area. Due to several
conservations schemes the water, which have been wanted will get conserved and
will give benefit to residents of the area
When this happens, evaporation will be at a minimum, there will no erosion and crop
production will be at a maximum. Watershed management or protection implies the
proper use of all land water resources of a watershed for optimum production with
minimum hazard to natural resources. Proper planning is therefore absolutely so as
to obtain as many benefits as possible with minimum expenditure. Planning for
water resources development in its wider sense may broadly be defined as through
study of pros and cons of various possible ways of harnessing this wonderful natural
resource and finally bring down the means and ways of achieving the best and
optimum benefits.
The concept of watershed is basic to all hydrologic designs. Since big watersheds
are made of many smaller watersheds, it is necessary to define the watershed in
terms of a point. This point is usually the location at which the design is being made
and is referred to as the watershed outlet. With respect to the outlet, the watershed

consists of all land area that sheds water to the outlet during a rainfall. Using the
concept that water runs downhill watershed is defined by all points enclosed within
an area from which rain falling at these points will contribute water to the outlet.
Watershed development has been proved as an attractive approach to rural
development over recent decades. All the Projects and programmes have been put
into practice across America, Africa and South Asia, but it is perhaps in India where
the approach has been most popular and permanent. Here, central government
investment has been running at over US$ 500 million a year. This paper considers
watershed development in rural areas where water supplies for domestic use.
Several new studies and papers have mentioned the current use of watershed
development efforts.
A major question is, therefore, how to select watershed management sites and
activities in such a way that organisations can simultaneously address the social and
economic goals for local inhabitants as well as the aims of watershed conservation
and restoration. This paper summarises observations derived from earlier
assessments of watershed management projects, including short-term reviews of
watershed management projects in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Thailand and Uganda
carried out by Perez between 1989 and 1999. In all these case, they visited field
sites, interviewed project personnel and participant farmers and reviewed project
documents and other technical literature. They have also taken into account
evidence from the international literature on watershed management.

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