borewells in A Sentence

    1

    Right: the open dug wall where she and her brother store the water from their Borewells.

    0
    2

    In four months, this single operator sank about 500 Borewells in Maharashtra, mostly in water-stressed Marathwada.

    0
    3

    Two geothermal Borewells were drilled at Dholera where the temperature of water was found to be 47-60 degrees celsius.

    0
    4

    But we know that of these, around 80,000 Borewells have dried up in the summer of 2013,” he writes.

    0
    5

    The tribunal made it clear that the DMRC can only use water from those Borewells for which it has permission.

    0
    6

    By not making any law to regulate Borewells, the state government aids the lobby that is operating in an open field.

    0
    7

    Proximity to the sea causes salt water ingress, limiting the depth to which families like the Valiyadaths can dig Borewells for water.

    0
    8

    The electricity produced has also ensured that 130 Borewells built in the village, each shared by five families, are used to meet irrigation needs of the village.

    0
    9

    Although a borewell must not go deeper than 200 feet(according to the Maharashtra Groundwater Act of 2009), Borewells in Marathwada are frequently as deep as 500 feet or more.

    0
    10

    Nagendra illustrates with the example of Bengaluru where Borewells do not find water even at depths of 800 ft, and generally deeper Borewells have higher chances of arsenic and fluoride contamination.

    0
    11

    He illustrated with the example of Bengalore where Borewells do not find water even at depths of 800 feet, and generally deeper Borewells have higher chances of arsenic and fluoride contamination.

    0
    12

    The total number of Borewells has gone up to around 2.5 lakhs in 2017, Reddy told this reporter, and, he said,“The[groundwater] officials recently told me that only 20 per cent Borewells are functioning and 80 per cent aren't working.”.

    0
    13

    But with a steep decline in the water table- the lowest since the district's Groundwater & Water Audit Department started keeping records in 1972- and with less recharge every year, Borewells now go to a depth of 600-700 feet.

    0
    14

    Each day, roughly three million litres of water is supplied to Leh from three sources: direct extraction from the Indus river bed in the heart of the town, digging Borewells in Leh town and upper Leh areas, and through springs and diversion channels.

    0