Water Security Program
Waste & WASH Program
Jal Rakshak & Water Guardian Network
PJRB SPARC
Water Body Revival
Water bodies are nature’s gift for water security of communities.
Most water bodies fall in one of the following three categories:
1. Seasonal Water body – Only Rain Water
Rain is the only source of water in the water body – rarity among water bodies these days. It is important to ensure that this continues. Household waste water should not be allowed to enter the water body. It is also important that garbage is not thrown in the water body.
Desilting of the water body can be undertaken if required to increase the percolation of the water into the ground to
2. Dry Water Body
A water body could be dry because of two reasons:
The catchment around the water body is blocked. Therefore, no rain water flows into the water body. To revive such a water body we should build channels from the catchment to allow the rain water to flow in to the water body.
The water body is filled with mud or other waste material. For revival of such a water body, we first need to excavate the filled material from the water body. We should also ensure that the water channels from the catchment to the water body are not blocked. If the water channels are blocked, we should also build channels from the catchment to allow the rain water to flow in to the water body.
3. Water Body Filled With Household / Industrial Dirty Water
In the absence of a proper sewerage system, majority of water bodies in villages and in unauthorised settlements in cities have become the recipient of household wastewater. This contaminates the water body and make it dirty.
There is an urgent need to clean these water bodies and revive them to discharge the natural function that they were meant to perform in the first place – store house of water and ground water recharge.
In most cases, it may not be possible to stop the inflow of the household wastewater in such water bodies. In such cases, the water body revival plan must incorporate some system of cleaning the incoming water before it enters the water body.
If you know of any water body that needs to be revived, do share the details of the water body with us.