Wakel River Basin Project case study Flashcards
Describe Taankas.
What issues does it help solve?
What are the potential issues?
- underground storage systems, 3-4 metres deep
- collect water from rooves to store underground
- help for drier months
- easy to collect
- water may not be clean
Describe a Johed.
What issues does it help solve?
What are the potential issues?
- small earth dams which capture rainwater
- 5 rivers which used to dry up now flow all year
- farmers and people can get water decreasing starvation in summer months
- hardly rains in Rajasthan so there won’t be enough
Describe the Pat Irrigation Systems.
What issues does it help solve?
What are the potential issues?
- small dam which diverts streams into farmers’ fields
- farmers take it in turns to use them
- produce food for themselves and villagers
- create a more stable income
- corruption
- rising tensions
Describe increasing public awareness.
What issues does it help solve?
What are the potential issues
- educate people to work together to conserve water
- increase their supples
- people may not listen
- may not want to cut down their use of water
Where will the Wakel River Basin Project be based?
- Rajasthan, North West India
Describe the area where it’s based?
- driest and poorest part of India
- largely covered by Thar desert
- summer temps reach 53*
- rainfall is less than 250mm per year
- 46% of rain falls between June and September
Why is clean water supply an issue here?
no water supply so had to find rivers which could be dirty
What problems do people face?
travel for miles to find and collect water for crop, cattle and family
What technique to improve the issue of walking for miles is used?
built a well underground and installed a pipe system to reach all the homes
