Eduwaive Foundation towards water management

The Eduwaive Foundation Agriculture team visited one of the agriculture experts- Mr.Ashok Kumar from Keet Saksharta Mission in Ludhiana and conveyed him about Eduwiave Foundation’s first step towards water management and conservation (Groundwater Recharge by Borewell Percolation Pit). Many of the farmers’ communities near Ludhiana and other parts are in contact with Mr.Ashok Kumar for the same. One of the farmers from Mansa Khurd had contacted Ashok Kumar for the crop loss due to water flooding in the rainy season. Further, he diverted that farmer to Eduwaive Foundation’s Agriculture team. Thereafter, our team went to visit the spot. During the visit, we collected some data which was necessary to carry out the project further.

Brief information about the village & the water management problem is as follows:

Village name: Mansa Khurd

District: Bathinda

State: Punjab

Soil Type: Alluvial Plains

Rainfall: 140mm

There are two ponds in the village- Clean water pond and Sewage water pond. Both are approximately equal in dimensions i.e, 180X200ft with a depth of 6ft.

In the rainy season both ponds become full, overflow occurs and there will be water logging which affects the society’s daily routine.

Present village Pond(both) capacity approximately : 60L liters.

Water logging area approximately : 6000 sq m

Problem statement : How to stop the water flooding in the rainy season.

Village ponds

one pond is having clean water where fishery is going on and another is sewage water pond.

Water Logging Area

Water will be logged ahead the school building mentioned in the above picture and there will be water level of 3 ft to that school building.

Below are the images after rain and present scenario in the village.

Water logging behind the school after rain

Water logging in agriculture land

Discussion part with Jagsir Singh and others:

Jagsir Singh contacted Eduwaive Foundation, to solve the water problem in their village. Our team made first field visit to MansaKhurd on 08/07/2019. As explained above there are two ponds, one is clean water pond & other is sewage water pond. If there is continuous rain for two to three days, there will be water flooding in the village which interrupts the daily routine of the people in the village for 7 to 10days.

All the drainage water from the village is directed to the sewage water pond. Once they receive excess rain sewage water mixes with clean water pond. Approximately we mapped the water flooding area i.e, 6000 to 8000sq.m (1.5 to 2acres) and water level will be upto 2 to 3ft and roughly we need to control 60L litres of water.

After some rainy days our team visited for the second time on 24/07/2019 with one civil engineer in team and examined all the water flooding areas in the village near ponds. Discussed about water stagnation areas around the ponds and drawn to the solution that, they need to construct soak pit to drain sewage water from the sewage pond and one borewell percolation pit to drain excess water from the clean water pond.

Above is the place where we planned to construct borewell percolation pit. After 35 ft of the cavity there is a borewell of 150ft depth but it is earth up now.

According to the discussion farmers will clean up the borewell to construct recharge pit around it. Based on the rainy days we are planned to execute it.

Now we are in the process of execution work at Mansakurdh.

Let’s join our hands for Water Conservation & Management.

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