West UP, NCR stare at water disaster as Ganga Canal to be shut for 20 days | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: Western UP and NCR area might face water scarcity because the higher Ganga canal – which is the key supply of water to those areas – can be shut down for 20 days from October 25 evening. Irrigation division will perform upkeep, restore and restoration work throughout the canal. Officers mentioned although the canal primarily caters to irrigation wants of the area, efforts have been underway to decipher nature and extent of impression on consuming water provide as nicely.
The irrigation division will begin blocking the water provide to the canal on the Bhimgoda barrage in Uttarakhand.
Put up-monsoon season the canal is shut down for upkeep yearly as required for desilting, upkeep, repairs and restoration works. Spanning over 292-km the canal caters to fifteen districts of UP in its course. The provision can be restored on or earlier than November 12, mentioned the officers, in order that farmers in west UP get sufficient water to irrigate the agricultural fields forward of the Rabi crop season.
Through the inspection of the canal in September, officers discovered silt deposits within the canal. The parallel canal system additionally required some civil restore works whereas some ghats constructed at Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar have been additionally discovered broken.
Noida Authority and Ghaziabad Growth Authority, in the meantime, must make preparations to supply extra groundwater after treating it to the households until the time provide resumes as per the schedule.
Brajesh Sharma, a resident of Sector 78 in Noida, mentioned, “The standard of groundwater is extraordinarily poor in Noida and therefore it’s diluted with the Ganga water earlier than being equipped to the households. If authorities usually are not in a position to present water then residential societies must prepare for personal tankers to satisfy water demand.”