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Various press releases indicate that the Inter-Ministerial Group constituted to examine issues relating to the Ganga (headed by B.K. Chaturvedi, Member of the Planning Commission) has...
Drilling at a particular point to get good quantity of water is a myth. If it is a good source of water it needs to be a path of flow that you tap, and no where in the world do two streams of flowing fast moving water cross each other.
Secondly, it is only possible in limestone terrain that one finds under ground rivers.
The closest one can come to locating sites for drilling borewells is to identify the area where there is a possibility of higher amount of subsurface flow by employing resistivity or electro magnetic principles.
These too only give an indication which are inferred on the basis of lowering of resistance etc. along these depths and areas. It is a scientific method but not fool proof.
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Dear Deepak Patil,
Drilling at a particular point to get good quantity of water is a myth. If it is a good source of water it needs to be a path of flow that you tap, and no where in the world do two streams of flowing fast moving water cross each other.
Secondly, it is only possible in limestone terrain that one finds under ground rivers.
The closest one can come to locating sites for drilling borewells is to identify the area where there is a possibility of higher amount of subsurface flow by employing resistivity or electro magnetic principles.
These too only give an indication which are inferred on the basis of lowering of resistance etc. along these depths and areas. It is a scientific method but not fool proof.
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Anil Lalwani