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    The important water resources in India are rivers, ponds, lakes and tanks. The early water storages in Kerala include dams, rainwater harvesting and madakas. India's water comes primarily from two sources - rainfall and glacial snowmelt in the Himalayas. An aquifer is a body of saturated rock through which water can easily move and must be both permeable and porous, including rock types like sandstone. Irrigation methods in India include surface irrigation, border strip method, and well and tube well irrigation. A catchment area or river basin is the area from which all precipitation flows into a single stream or set of streams, divided by drainage divides.

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    The important water resources in India are rivers, ponds, lakes and tanks. The early water storages in Kerala include dams, rainwater harvesting and madakas. India's water comes primarily from two sources - rainfall and glacial snowmelt in the Himalayas. An aquifer is a body of saturated rock through which water can easily move and must be both permeable and porous, including rock types like sandstone. Irrigation methods in India include surface irrigation, border strip method, and well and tube well irrigation. A catchment area or river basin is the area from which all precipitation flows into a single stream or set of streams, divided by drainage divides.

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    The important water resources in India are rivers, ponds, lakes and tanks. The early water storages in Kerala include dams, rainwater harvesting and madakas. India's water comes primarily from two sources - rainfall and glacial snowmelt in the Himalayas. An aquifer is a body of saturated rock through which water can easily move and must be both permeable and porous, including rock types like sandstone. Irrigation methods in India include surface irrigation, border strip method, and well and tube well irrigation. A catchment area or river basin is the area from which all precipitation flows into a single stream or set of streams, divided by drainage divides.

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    1. What are the important water resources in India?

    The important water resources in India are listed below:

    i.Rivers
    ii.Ponds
    iii.Lakes
    iv.Tank

    2. List the early water storages in your state.

    The early water storages in kerala are :

    i.Dams
    ii.Rain water harvest
    iii.Madakas

    3.where does India’s water come from?

    A major portion of India’s water come two ways:

    i.rainfall

    ii.and glacial snowmelt in the Himalayas.

    4.What is an aquifer?

    An aquifer is a body of saturated rock through which water can easily move. Aquifer
    must be both permeable and porous and include such rock types as sandstone,
    conglomerate, limestone and unconsolidated sand and gravel. 

    5. Write a note on the irrigation methods in India.

    In India, the irrigated area consists of about 36 per cent of the net sown area.
    There are various techniques of irrigation practices in different parts of India. These methods
    of irrigation differ in how the water obtained from the source is distributed within the field.
    Irrigation in India is done through wells, tanks, canals, perennial canal, and multi-purpose
    river valley projects.
    Surface Irrigation:
    In this technique water flows and spreads over the surface of the land. Varied

    quantities of water are allowed on the fields at different times.

    Free Flooding:
    This flooding system of irrigation is used from ancient times. Flooding method

    consists in applying the water by flooding the land of rather smooth and flat

    topography. In current 

    Border Strip Method:


    length varies In this technique of irrigation, a field is divided into number of strips.

    The width of strip varies from 10 to 15 metres and from 90 m to 400 m.

    Well and Tube Well Irrigation:


    A well is a hole dug in the ground to get the subsoil water. Normal well is about 3-5

    metres deep but deeper wells up-to 15 metres are also dug. 

    6. What is catchment area, River basin.

    Drainage basin, also called catchment area, or  watershed, area from which all
    precipitation flows to a single stream or set of streams.
    The boundary between drainage basins is a drainage divide: all the precipitation on
    opposite sides of a drainage divide will flow into different drainage basins .

    TASK 2:
    AQUIFER SYSTEM OF MY STATE -KERALA

    The atlas entitled the aquifer system of kerala is a step towards achieving the
    ultimate goal of aquifer wise management of ground water resources in kerala.

    The tiny State of Kerala, is home to about 3 percent of its population. Though richly
    endowed with surface water sources such as rivers, tanks and ponds and having average
    annual utilization of only a small portion of the available resources underlain by crystalline
    rocks devoid of In alluvial formations with multiple aquifer systems in part of the coastal
    tract, quality is often a constraint in the optimum development of ground water resources.

    MAJOR BASINS AND SUB BASINS

    1.PERIYAR RIVER( Rivers flowing from Kanyakumari and Sharavati to Arabian sea)
    Catchment area in kerala -35985
    Sub basins : Netravati, Periyar, Varar and others.
    No of water sheds : 7,17&8 respectively.

    2.KAVERY RIVER
    Catchment area in kerala -2879
    Sub basin : Kavery middle
    No of water sheds :5
    zA
    Alluvium :Laterite :Granite : Schist : Quartzite : Charnockite: Khondalite: B G C : Gneiss :Intrusives To
    Area % Area % Area % Area % Area % Area % Area % Area % Area % Area %

    13 36 1.6 284 13.0 1872 85.4 2192

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