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Irrigation contributes significantly to the agriculture in India. Irrigation in India includes a network of major and minor canals from Indian rivers, groundwater well based systems, tanks, and other rainwater harvesting projects for agricultural activities. Of these groundwater system is the largest. [1]
The country accounts for 18% of the world's population but has access to only about 4% of the world's water resources. One of the proposed measures to address India's water challenges is the Indian Rivers Interlinking Project. [2] Approximately 80% of India's land area receives rainfall of 750 millimetres (30 in) or more annually.
Irrigation 4 Barnar Dam: 282.7 76.75 Ganga Under Construction Gravity & Masonry Jamui: Irrigation 5 Baskund Dam: Baskund 67.07 17.68 Ganga 1984 Earth-fill: Lakhisarai: Irrigation 6 Belharna Dam: Belharna 411.58 30.1 Ganga 1987 Earth-fill: Jamui: Irrigation 7 Bilasi Dam: Bilasi 169.8 19.97 Ganga 2001 Earth-fill: Jamui: Irrigation 8 Chandan Dam ...
Map of India based on survey of rivers of India.. The Indian rivers interlinking project is a proposed large-scale civil engineering project that aims to effectively manage water resources in India by linking rivers using a network of reservoirs and canals to enhance irrigation and groundwater recharge and reduce persistent floods in some parts and water shortages in other parts of the country.
Most of the rivers in India originate from the four major watersheds in India. The Himalayan watershed is the source of majority of the major river systems in India including the three longest rivers–the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Indus. [3] [4] These three river systems are fed by more than 5000 glaciers. [5]
Irrigation in India by state or union territory (6 C) C. Canals in India (10 C, 19 P) D. Dams in India (8 C, 4 P) E. Indian irrigation engineers (13 P) L.
The greater part of the soil, moreover, is under irrigation, and consequently bears two crops in the course of the year. . . . In addition to cereals, there grows throughout India much millet. . . and much pulse of different sorts, and rice also, and what is called bosporum [Indian millet]. . . . Since there is a double rainfall [i.e., the two ...
Puri became the first city in India to get a piped 24 hour continuous drinking water quality water supply. [17] Trivandrum is the largest Indian city and the only million agglomeration that enjoys uninterrupted hygienic water supply. [5] [better source needed] Chennai has two desalination plants: the Nemmeli and Minjur. [18]