Scenic Beauty of Parambikulam reservoir

Water in the form of ice.

Today in Ashland . There was snow fall of about 3"yesterday . Can we make use of ice to make drinking water?

WATER COPERATION

Today is celebrated as World Water Day.Every year March 22 is earmarked for conducting awareness campaign by UN about the subject 'WATER '. This practice started from the year 1992. They keep the subject alive on a particular theme . This year is the 'Year of International Water Coperation. '
Water is available in atmosphere in all the three forms -Solid,Liquid,Gas-Ice ,Water,and Steam .
The total quantity of Water in atmosphere remains same.It is available in different forms. Atmospheric moisture,surface water,underground water,soil moisture, in plants and trees and in han bodies and in all animals and living beings.
The Sanskrit verse says 'APO VA IDAGUM SARVAM ' means Water is Everything. Without water no living being can exist. Access to fresh quality water should be declared as a Human right. No body can withhold access to any body.
But the greed , had made water as a commodity nay economic commodity. Problem started then onwards. When the natural resources are made as a economic good and tradable item profit making business eyes fell on that . The ownership question over the most essential life sustaining element on earth became a source of profit for those companies . Immediate access to such a vital element is denied to those who do not have the purchasing power.
When I was a child fresh water was available for drinking free of cost .Now I have to pay .My capacity and willingness to pay decide the availability .
Actually in India , the war on water between regions were escalated during nineties.
I am going to tell a story about the good Samaritan who felt making available water for drinking and for irrigation to his neighbors .
Watercoperation between two neighboring states of India is a model . It is an example of Coperation between two ideologies .
Now let us read about ,
PARAMBIKULAM -ALIYAR PRJECT . As I know.

PENNY JOHN CUICK-THE PIONEER OF IBT IN INDIA.

HI READER,
BEFORE WRITING MY EXPERIENCE IN THIS SUBJECT ,I WISH TO SHOWER ENCOMIUMS TO THE FIRST ROYAL ENGINEER WHO MOOTED THE IDEA OF INTER BASIN TRANSFER OF WATER FROM ONE RIVER BASIN TO ANOTHER. HIS VENTURE IS UNIQUE IN THE SENCE THAT HE DIDNOT TRANSFER WATER FROM ONE BASIN TO NEARBY NEXT BASIN. HE FOUGHT AGAINST THE NATURE .TO DIVERT THE NATURAL FLOW OF WATER FROM ONE DIRECTION TO EXACTLY TO THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.  ONE OF THE WEST FLOWING RIVERS ,PERIYAR,IN SOUTHERN TIP OF INDIA ,WAS DIVERTED TO EAST TO JOIN THE EAST FLOWING RIVER VAIGAI OF MADURAI DISTRICT.
THIS WAS A MARVELLOUS ENGINEERING FEATIN THOSE AGES WHEN TECHNOLOGY OF CONSTRUCTION HAD NOT REACHED TO THE LEVEL OF MODERN AGE.HATS OFF TO PENNY JOHN CUICK.

INTER BASIN TRANSFER OF WATER

WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY 2013.
AFTER A LONG GAP LET ME START AGAIN .

Interbasin transfer or transbasin diversion are terms used to describe man-made conveyance schemes which move water from one river basin where it is available, to another basin where water is less available .

The purpose of such designed schemes can be to alleviate water shortages in the receiving basin, to generate electricity, or both.  While ancient water supply examples exist, the first modern developments were undertaken in the 19th century in Australia, India and the United States. Since conveyance of water between natural basins are described as both a subtraction at the source and as an addition at the destination, such projects may be controversial in some places and over time; they may also be seen as controversial due to their scale, costs and environmental or developmental impacts. Green Revolution in India and hydropower development in Canada could not have been accomplished without such man-made transfers.(COURTSEY WIKIPEDIA).

PARAMBIKULAM-ALIYAR A BRIEF

THIS PROJECT IS A SYMBOL OF INTER-STATE CO-OPERATION OF THE TWO NEIGHBOURING STATES OF INDIA- KERALA AND TAMIL NADU. THIS IMAGINATIVE CONCEPT AND BOLD APPROACH AND INGENIOUS IN PLANNING AND BENEFICIAL FOR BOTH TAMILNADU AND KERALASTATE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE BUT FOR THE ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT OF STATESMEN LIKE SRI.K.KAMARAJ, THE THEN TAMILNADU CHIEF MINISTER AND SRI. E.M.S NAMBOOTHIRIPPAD, THE THEN KERALA CHIEF MINISTER. THE THEN PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA SRI.JAWAHARLAL NEHRU GAVE HIS FULL FLEDGED SUPPORT TO THE WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT WHICH IS UNIQUE IN NATURE.

Let us talk about it.