Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Inspecting MALAMPUZHA DAM .

HIRAHUD DAM

BHAKRA NANGAL DAM

STORAGE REQUIREMENT OF INDIA BY 2050

STORAGE REQUIREMENT OF INDIA
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1) THERE IS WIDE TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL RAINFALL VARIATION IN INDIA .
 2) 75% OF TOTAL RAINFALL IS RECEIVED DURING THE 4 MONSOON MONTHS .
 3) INDIAN RIVERS , THOSE WHICH ARE NOT FED BY SNOW MELT , CARRY MEAGRE DISCHARGE DURING NON-MONSOON MONTHS .
4) FIVE YEAR PLANS , INITIATED AFTER INDEPENDENCE , LAID EMPHASIS ON CREATION OF STORAGES.
5 ) LIVE STORAGE CAPACITY OF RESERVOIRS
   i. At the time of independence. - 15.6 BCM
   II.At present.                               - 225 BCM
6) ADDITIONAL CAPACITY EXPECTED
   i. Projects under construction.    - 64 BCM
  II. PROJECT UNDER CONTEMPLATION -108 BCM .
7) DEMAND OF WATER 2050
   I. Low projection.            -  973 BCM
  II. High projection.            - 1180 BCM
8. ) STORAGE REQUIRED  -  450BCM
   ) STORAGE THAT WOULD HAVE CREATED - 397 BCM
    SHORTFALL.                    -  53 BCM.

WE WANT MORE STORAGE CAPACITY .

WATER RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF INDIA

WATER RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF INDIA
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ANNUAL AVERAGE  AVAILABLE WATER RESOURCE OF OUR COUNTRY - 1869 BCM.
UTILIZABLE WATER RESOURCE                                                                  - 1123 BCM
SURFACE WATER.                                                                                         - 690 BCM
GROUND WATER.                                                                                          - 433. BCM
ULTIMATE IRRIGATION POTENTIAL ( UIP).                                                    - 113.47 MHa
FROM MAJOR& MEDIUM.                                                                              - 58.47 MHa
MINOR IRRIGATION.                                                                                       - 55 MHa

MULLAIPPERIYAAR ISSUE

" TO RAISE OR NOT TO RAISE THAT  WAS THE QUESTION " 

 The above sentence may remind you of the famous sentence from the drama HAMLET by Shakespeare. "To be or not be that's the question ,whether the nobler in the mind to suffer to die to sleep " 

Hamlet was in a perplex mood the thought of die or to live came to his mind . 

 Similarly, 

It was a life and death problem for the farmers of Tamilnadu and People living downstream of the age old dam . 

Now the final verdict of The Supreme Court of India was delivered on 7th Day of May 2014. 

As an Engineering student , especially the Civil Engineering students should know the History of The Dam . 

Those of you who read news papers might have known something about the issue. 

Now let us Study about the problem . 

To learn about the problem you should study about the design of Dams .