Water Disaster: West Up Stares At Disaster As Ganga Canal To Be Shut | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: Western UP and NCR area could face water scarcity because the higher Ganga canal – which is the main supply of water to those areas – might be shut down for 20 days from October 25 evening. Irrigation division will perform upkeep, restore and restoration work throughout the canal. Officers stated although the canal primarily caters to irrigation wants of the area, efforts have been underway to decipher nature and extent of affect on ingesting water provide as properly.
The irrigation division will begin blocking the water provide to the canal on the Bhimgoda barrage in Uttarakhand. Submit-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 availability might be restored on or earlier than November 12, stated 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 Improvement Authority, in the meantime, should make preparations to offer extra groundwater after treating it to the households until the time provide resumes as per the schedule.