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Water Ponds in each and every village.
Water is the most crucial resource for sustainable agricultural production in the dry land/rain fed areas, is not being used fully. Much of the rainfall runs off the ground. The runoff does not only causes loss of water but it also washes away precious top soil. A rough estimate is that 1 hectare watershed in red soil area can yield 250 Cubic meters of water. Farm ponds are the traditional water sources of paddy fields throughout south Indian states. They are essential components of integrated rain fed agriculture. They store rainwater and keeps water balance in the locality enabling early sowing of crops. Fish culture and growing of aquatic plants are made possible.
Groundwater is the major source of water in our country.85% of the population dependent on it. So it is very important to stop the flowing the flood water into the Sea. If we stop and restore the rain water in each and every village and city we can reduce recurring releasing of budget amount for various categories and increasing the Budget amount to other categories.
First of all we should preserve the rain water. For this there is a very good Planning from our Bharathiya Vajra Party. Without proper permanent positive steps of the political leaders and governments, how can we get proper results when serving our People and the Country ? Bharathiya Vajra Party concentrates on this type of permanent developments in the country.
700 million rural people are residing in about 1.42 million habitations spread over 15 diverse ecological regions apart from the towns and cities. To reduce the people migrations and immigrations from the draught areas people to towns or Cities or any other place and to improve public health and wealth in every village in our country and to increase permanent economic productivity – there is an urgent need of participation of the Politicians, local organizations, Governments and must give highest priority to the water storage systems.
In rural India, tanks and ponds have been playing very vital role in socio, cultural, economic and environment development. Tanks and Ponds are the common property of Indian villages and support the livelihoods of the marginalized community in rural, urban, coastal and tribal areas of India. These small scale water bodies generate substantial income to village common fund through various programmes like Fishery, trees, fire wood, sand, and etc., which in turn is used for village development works. Tanks are sources of fuel wood, timber and fodder to livestock of marginalized people. During summer season, landless people use tank bed for cucumber and vegetable cultivation to earn additional income. Several lakhs of farming families are dependent on tank system in South India. There are about 5,00,000 tanks in India and these tanks are intensely situated in semi arid parts of Peninsular India. These tanks capture the runoff water of the monsoon rainfall occurring in a short span of time and providing water for irrigation and other multiple uses for the community who depend on this. These tanks were created by our forefathers and managed by the local communities over several centuries. These tanks and ponds are highly adoptive to the implications of the climate change. The people living below the poverty line in rural India are not getting adequate water and in an affordable manner. The tanks and ponds are highly used for agricultural & other village uses in semi arid(waste) regions of South India, however the degeneration of the these water bodies is happened due to Sedimentation, encroachments, damaged water regulating structures, weak bunds, disappearance traditional community governance, over extraction of ground water and changes in the land use of their catchment areas. Their performance efficiency also has been deteriorating due to inadequate maintenance and neglect. Many efforts are being made to enhance water storage by such activities as water conservation and rehabilitation of tank irrigation systems with community participation and management in a most cost effective manner. These tanks are mostly spread over rural and drought prone areas and the users are predominantly small and marginal farmers having land holdings less than 1 hectare each. Their livelihood depends on such small water bodies. They are vulnerable sections of the farming community, primarily depending upon the capricious monsoons. They do not have access to large scale canal irrigation systems or to independent groundwater sources like wells. The only way to improve their crop production from tank fed farming is to provide them access to such supplemental water resources like conservation of small water bodies like tanks and ponds through participatory process and enable them to manage the water distribution and thus become self reliant.
Water demand is increased in urban area because of faster urbanization. The water need could not be fulfilled by the existing combined drinking water projects from the rivers. Because of the dense migrating population, ground water extraction is too high in urban area. However the tanks/ponds in the urban area have the high potential to bridge the gap in the existing water demand of the urban population. But the urban water bodies are forced to the environmental problems because of the dumping of the garbage in water bodies, draining sewage water in to the tanks, construction of the government buildings & other infrastructures in the water spread area and encroachment of the water ways. This leads to the extinction of the water bodies, contamination of the water bodies, spreading of the water born diseases and other environmental problems.
Encroachment of the water ways resulted in heavy flood during the monsoon time. These water bodies have high potential of ground water recharge and other water supply. In coastal areas, drinking water ponds still continue to be the primary source of drinking water and domestic water use, where the ground water is saline and these areas have no rivers to supply drinking water. In some of the coastal areas there is less intensity of the traditional water resources and other water diversion structures. Creating the new water bodies like common ponds, farm ponds, restoring existing water bodies and other water harvesting structures will help to cope up with the saline ground water problem and enhance the livelihoods of the poor people. In tribal areas, tank based watershed development resulted in the renovation of the ponds, tanks, creating new water harvesting structures, orchard development and wage employment for the poor families. In tribal areas the ground water resources are less utilized. Use of surface water supplemented with ground water will help for the poor families of tribal area. These water conservation activities enhance the livelihood activities of the poor tribals…, These ponds and tanks store the monsoon run-off for more than 4 to 6 months. They facilitate ground water recharge in their zone of influence and facilitate the ground water level increase in many places. The aquifers in the wells in the vicinity within the radius of one kilometer of the water bodies will be revived and will again come into life through ground water recharge after the tank development works, the pores closed due to siltation opens up after rehabilitation of tank systems. The monsoons received in the catchments will be equitably distributed among the tanks. As the tanks holds the water for 4 to 6 months period, the village community will take up pisciculture activities. At the same time the Fire wood and livestock will also develops.
Involvement of the people, political leaders, service organizations and governments for the small water bodies is the core of the programme. The communities should be mobilized to conserve their water resources in a sustainable way. Tank fed agriculture development provides appropriate methods and techniques in using the water and land efficiently for improving the productivity of the tank command area and catchment areas. The conservation works like tank renovation, pond renovation, clearing the link channels, catchment area treatment works watershed basis ensure highest possible returns to the farming families, as well as to our country.
We can also protect the water from seepage i.e., the slow escape of water through porous sand or small holes into the earth by using the Plastic Polythene Sheet, LDPE Plastic Sheets, Hdpe Geomembrane Water Tank Liners, LDPE Tarpaulins Sheets or any other Plastic materials. The Dangerous Huge Plastic waste in the country can be recycled be removing the toxic chemicals and can be utilized as memberane in lakes, ponds, canals and other water storage methods in this way in the country.
Central and State Governments must follow some mandatory rules for the development. There are thousands of hectors of the government lands in / adjacent the villages and towns and cities. Governments must convert these lands as the ponds or tanks which are highly appreciated among the people. Central and state Governments must insist the concerned people in those areas to construct these ponds and tanks atleast one per year for a period of 10 years. Local people, organizations, volunteers, political leaders must and should follow this programme for the benefit of our people and Nation.
This method of involvement of people enables us fantastic ground water increase and storage of the rain water in the ponds and tanks and it will be involved throughout the nation. This will give the best results for the Country. We have to convert the waste/unfertile/government lands for ponds and tanks for the National development. The voluntary services of the people, students, aged persons, organizations, clubs and all in the villages, towns and cities is needed. All concerned Government employees, proclainers and any other digging instruments should be used 24 hours a day. They should not be wasted even for a single hour. The results of this programme will be seen in the same year. We are having 653, Districts, 6577 Blocks, 246630 Panchayats, 596856 Villages in our Country. So, we should plan and motivate the people, leaders, Govt employees and all others to involve for continuous participation in this programme. Then only we can control the recurring draught conditions, and also floods in the rainy season. We can increase agricultural crops, animal husbandry, farm houses, small scale industries and etc., everywhere in almost all villages. Ultimately the National productions will increase and it changes the entire economy in the country. Political leaders are for the development of the country and people. Political leaders must concentrate in this way. Dedications in our work will changes entire country. We all welcome you all over India and invite you to join in our Bharathiya Vajra Party and lead the party in your area for the given different kinds of plannings and programmes.