How did the tanks help?

1.	How did the tanks help?
Answer» 1. The tanks helped the people not only in giving them and their animals drinking water, but also irrigating their fields in such a way that even in drought years they could raise at least some crops. 2. The tanks also helped to increase the water level in the wells nearby. 3. After the rains have stopped and the tank water decreased, the tank bed could be used for raising some crops. 4. Most important thing is that the tanks helped to prevent the runoff of rain water and the erosion of topsoils. 5. Every year people would collect tank silt and put it in their fields to fertilize the soil. 6. Tanks belonged to all people of the village. Thus they benefited not one or two people but all people of the village. 7. To this day most of the villages in the Telangana and Rayalaseema regions have at least one or two major tanks.

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1. The tanks helped the people not only in giving them and their animals drinking water, but also irrigating their fields in such a way that even in drought years they could raise at least some crops.

2. The tanks also helped to increase the water level in the wells nearby.

3. After the rains have stopped and the tank water decreased, the tank bed could be used for raising some crops.

4. Most important thing is that the tanks helped to prevent the runoff of rain water and the erosion of topsoils.

5. Every year people would collect tank silt and put it in their fields to fertilize the soil.

6. Tanks belonged to all people of the village. Thus they benefited not one or two people but all people of the village.

7. To this day most of the villages in the Telangana and Rayalaseema regions have at least one or two major tanks.

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