Waste water pilot project

Oct 8 - The Central Government and Haryana Government will jointly undertake a pilot project to check the fast decreasing underground water level in the State. Under the project dirty water ofthe villages will be collected in the village ponds and fish will becultured in these ponds, which not only replenish the undergroundwater table, but also augment the income of the panchayats.This was disclosed by Mr.C.P.Shrivastav, Superintending Geologist ofCentral Underground Water Board while inspecting the rural pondsconstructed for this purpose in the village Barna of Kurukshetradistrict and village Saleempur Madud of Kaithal district.He said that under the project the village ponds would be dividedinto two parts to collect clean and dirty water separately. The cleanwater would be used for animals and dirty water for fisheries. The underground water table was fast depleting due to use of excessive water for growing paddy in the paddy zone of the State. If the processof using excessive water continued, even the submersible tubewellwould also fail creating acute shortage of water for drinking andirrigation purposes, he added.