Friday, September 7, 2012

Release water from upstream dams

The Shiv Sena on Th demanded that chief minister Prithviraj Chavan direct the authorities involved to unharness water into the Jayakwadi dam, popularly called Nathsagar, from the upstream dams in Ahmednagar and Nashik districts.

Sena MP Chandrakant Khaire expressed concern concerning the irrigation state of affairs in Marathwada. He aforementioned that half the fourteen huge dams within the region still have zero per cent live storage of water, whereas there's little water stock within the different smaller dams despite the recent rain.

In a memo submitted to the chief minister, Khaire aforementioned that minor and medium irrigation comes too have simply eight to Martinmas water compared to their storage capability.

He realized that variety of dams area unit situated on the upstream of Jayakwadi dam, that gets water only if it's free from the upstream dams. Khaire conjointly aforementioned that several major dams together with Nilwande, Bhandardara, Mula, Darna, Gangapur and Palkhed were engineered a lot of once the Jayakwadi dam was created.

Khaire aforementioned that nowadays, the majority the upstream dams have ninety to ninety fifth water storage. He aforementioned that considering probabilities of excellent rain within the next few days, these dams would possibly overflow. He urged the chief minister to direct authorities involved to unharness water from these dams.

He conjointly aforementioned that the 5 districts of Marathwada - Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Parbhani and Nanded - rely heavily on the Jayakwadi dam for water for irrigation and drinking functions.

He vulnerable to launch associate degree agitation if matters was allowed to continue, since it'd badly have an effect on industries likewise as beverage offer systems within the region.

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