Sustainable Plan to Reduce the Effect of Salination, Drought and Flood in Coastal Area of Gujarat, India

Authors

  • Anant Patel, Prutha Patel, Sapna Bablani, Shreyansh Jain

Abstract

The rivers are not only life-line for humans, but also for wi1d-life. The rivers play a very important role within the lives of the people, because the Rivers are very much helpful in water supply, irrigation, water transportation, generation of electricity, tourism in addition as could be a source of livelihood for our increasing population. Most of the major cities are normally situated on the shores of holy rivers or near the coastal area. Proper management of river water is much needed. Agriculture activities are largely depends on the monsoon which is often undefined in nature specifically in India. Hence, there is a significant problem of lack of irrigation in an exceedingly region and water logging in others. To solve this problem it is essential to interlink all the rivers within the whole country to supply water to the deficit area. The approach is made store river water which discharge ample amount of water every year during monsoon season into the ocean. The main priority is given for interlinking of the Gujarat state major rivers to fulfill the needs of the areas which are facing the severe water scarcity such as North Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutchh region of Gujarat State. This approach also helpful to those area where the effect of salinity is more. In recent years, there are lots of water crises and issues are reported across the world. So, it is right time to protect and conserve the surface water and also control the ground water being contaminated through the sea water intrusion for the future survival for the next generation. In this paper a sustainable resilient plan is suggested for river water interlinking, which is helpful in control of surface water storage and saline water intrusion into the ground water along the coastal area.

Published

2020-04-30

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