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[2] [3] The rank is based on the percentage of households which have access to safe drinking water. Kerala ranked highest with 97.6%, while Andhra has the worst rank with only 33.5% households having access to safe drinking water. National average stands at 85.5%.
The Bisalpur dam reservoir supplies irrigation water to the Sawai Madhopur and Tonk districts. It also supplies drinking water to the Ajmer, Jaipur and Tonk districts. [8] From Nasirabad in Ajmer district, the drinking water is also transported to the Bhilwara district via a 15-wagon train, which can carry 2.5 million litres of water. [9]
The remaining water is released into the environment where it pollutes, spreads diseases and harms wildlife. [28] [29] Given that 80% of water supplied to urban areas returns as waste water, it has the potential to be treated and reused for industrial activities or crop irrigation, which relieves the water demand and also reduce pollution level ...
[1] 98% of the basin area lies in Rajasthan, the remainder in Gujarat. [5] [6] The mean annual surface water yield for the basin is 319.4 million cubic metres. [3] There are 24 minor irrigation projects in the watershed, with a total live storage capacity of 65.98 million cubic metres. [7] The Mansi Wakal Dam is the largest dam in the basin. [2]
As of 2008 only about 10% of rural water schemes built in India used a demand-driven approach. Since water users have to pay lower or no tariffs under the supply-driven approach, this discourages them to opt for a demand-driven approach, even if the likelihood of the systems operating on a sustainable basis is higher under a demand-driven approach.
The dam is situated near Sumerpur town in Pali District of Rajasthan state in India. The dam was built by Maharaja Umaid Singh of Jodhpur.. The idea of building a dam over River Jawai was conceived in 1903 as its flooding waters caused heavy damage in Pali and Jalore district during monsoon.
Kota Barrage is the fourth in the series of Chambal Valley Projects, located about 0.8 km upstream of Kota City in Rajasthan.Water released after power generation at Gandhi Sagar dam, Rana Pratap Sagar dam and Jawahar Sagar Dams, is diverted by Kota Barrage for irrigation in Rajasthan and in Madhya Pradesh through canals on the left and the right sides of the river.
Mansi Wakal dam is part of an inter-basin transfer scheme called 'Mansi Wakal I' under which water is transferred from the Sabarmati basin to the Bherach basin. [2] The dam was constructed between 2000 [ 1 ] -2005 [ 2 ] by the Government of Rajasthan at a cost of ₹ 60 crore (US$7.0 million) [ 3 ] with monetary contributions from Hindustan ...