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During thunderstorm, it is safer to Take shelter under short trees.

(A) Physical Map

(A) vegetation

In Rainy season water level goes upper

(D) Watershed

Answer is (C) Ground

(C) the silt in tanks is used in fields to fertilize the soil.

(D) Both A & B

Answer is (C) Water

(B) Villagers

(D) All the above

(C) building tanks

Answer is (A) Tanks

(D) All the above

The rocky layer that has cracks, pores is soft.

C) Neeru Chettu – Neeru Pragathi

Pakala cheruvu is in Chittoor district.

(A) strong rocky layer

(C) both A & B

Our village is ‘Kalisipudi’ village in West Godavari District. There are no hills around our village like here. We have two water tanks – one is for drinking water and the another is for cultivation. Rainwater is saved in one tank. Water from* the canal, which was dug from the river Godavari, will be turned to another tank. Our farmers use tractors for ploughing. Our residences are far away from our fields. Draw the map of your village and locate the water resources of your village in it.

(D) Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao

We use under-ground water for domestic purposes, for industrial production purposes, for cleaning machines and for increase agricultural production, etc. We can protect the underground water in the following ways.

1. Dig the percolation tanks, 

2. Rainwater harvesting pits. 

3. Loose boulders. 

4. Increasing vegetative cover. 

5. Floods are often caused by a sudden increase in underground water.

All the above methods we should recharge the underground water. So water levels don’t decrease over time.

1. During the last twenty or thirty years, the tanks have been neglected and have been allowed to break down. 

2. Repairs to the tanks, desilting, etc., have not been done regularly. 

3. People also have gradually taken land for building houses or for agriculture.

4. As a result in almost every part of the state, we see the sad state of dry tanks lying uncared for. 

5. Instead of caring for the tanks, we have been digging deeper and deeper tube wells at great expense. 

6. But they only benefit a few and in the long run deplete water resources. On the other hand, tanks build resources for all.

1. The tanks were sometimes built by a king, sometimes by a military leader or nayaka, or often by the people of the village themselves. 

2. Usually, every village preserved the memory of those who were responsible for building the tank through stories or temples, or festivals.

3. In building the tank, everyone in the village contributed to expenses and labour. 

4. All people of the village together maintained the tank by repairing the tank bund (wall) or removing silt from the tank bed. 

5. They also took care so that no one dirtied or stopped the water flowing into the tank. 

6. They also appointed a person to regulate the use of the water from the tank. 

7. The tanks were usually built by building a strong wall of stones and mud across a small stream in such a way that with a wall on just one side a large lake could be formed.

1. AP WALTA Act means Andhra Pradesh Water Land and Trees Act. 

2. Its objectives, 

1. It promotes water conservation. 

2. Its protection of forests. 

3. It promotes the construction of check dams. 

4. It encourages the setting up of watershed programs.

Water quickly flows into streams and into rivers. However, if the flow of the rainwater were to be checked by vegetation or bunds, then there would be a greater possibility of the water percolating into the soil to join the groundwater. 

This is why vegetation like trees and grasses and bunds are used to enhance groundwater. Over the last few years, great efforts have been made to ‘harvest’ rainwater by these means. These measures are usually taken for a stream or river. ” Such efforts are called ‘watershed development projects. Under these projects trees and grasses are planted on the hill slopes from where a stream starts. Also, small bunds are built across small nullahs and streams to stop the flow of water. Small check dams are also built across streams to store water for a longer time.

Yes, I can recall. The wells in Penamakuru have water at a depth of 15 to 25 feet. The wells in Salakamcheruvu have water at a depth of 100 to 125 feet. They are borewells.

1. India is an agricultural country. India needs sufficient water to the crops. 

2. Seasonal occurrence of rainfall 

3. Increase of agricultural production through multiple cropping systems 

4. To safeguard areas against droughts 

5. To utilize effectively the available water resources 

6. Today’s generation has received water from the past as a sacred asset. 

7. We should give it to the future generation just as we received it.

8. We should also develop ways of using and conserving water in a restrained manner. Otherwise future generations will fight destructive wars over water and we will be responsible for it.

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.

1. The tanks helped the people not only in giving them and their animals drinking water but also in 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. The tanks helped to prevent the run-off of rainwater and the erosion of topsoil. 

4. Every year people would collect tank silt and apply it to their field to the fertile soil. 

5. We should remember that no one person owned the tanks and they belonged to all people of the village.

1. Many times water is polluted due to the excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides or poor: drainage. 

2. Sometimes the water is polluted by animals and human beings.

3. Even the ashes of the dead persons and dead animals are thrown into rivers. 

4. In villages, people wash their clothes on the banks of rivers and bathe their cattle there. 

5. Sometimes the water is polluted by chemicals released from industries and factories reached of the rivers through the drainage system.

This difference is because of the minerals which are dissolved in the groundwater which is usually mixed with many minerals. These minerals come from the rocks and soils underneath. Hence, depending upon the minerals which mix with the water, the taste and nature of water change. In our state many mandals in Prakasam, Kadapa, and Ananthapur there is an excess quantity of certain minerals like Sodium, Fluoride, Chloride, Iron, Nitrate, etc. Drinking such water is not good for our health and can cause diseases that affect our bones, teeth, etc. In such situations, the drinking water should be properly treated to remove the excess minerals.

(C) both A & B

a) Water flows from the plateau to the plains.

b) There is a thick deposit of alluvium in the plains.

c) Groundwater will dry sometime.

d) Correct

1. Rocks of the Kadapa type of limestones

2. Rocks of Kadapa type of limestone

3. The areas adjacent to the rivers like the Krishna and Godavari have deep layers of sand and silt.

4. Yes, it is easy.

5. The water level depends upon the water in the river. Usually, there is plenty of water. It is nearly five to seven meters below the groundwater in these areas and it is very easy to dig wells in them.

1. Groundwater, like the rivers, is the common resource of all people and not just of those who have landed over aquifers. 

2. However, at present, it is being used only by those who have such lands. 

3. Those who own land over aquifers tend to overuse the water which decreases the water table for all neighboring people. 

4. Some of them dig deeper tube wells which causes a further decline in water level. 

5. As a result, the wells in the neighborhood are going dry. 

6. If we use the groundwater as a common resource and in a restrained manner, we can ensure that everyone is able to benefit from them. 

7. In fact, after a few years, even those who dig deeper tube wells will not have any water left to pump.

a) The top portion of these rocks is broken and they carry water. Many of these rocks also have deep cracks going down to 50 or 100 meters in depth. These cracks too contain water.

b) Well ‘W’ will go dry first. The usage of the water will be high from this well.

c) Yes, there may be a chance.

From the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Panama Canal in the south.

Answer is (C) Pillas

(B) Rs. 250 – 300

After runoff comes the last step of the water cycle, percolation. Percolation occurs when the water on the earth’s surface in the run-off stage seeps underground. That is why in the old days they used wells to retrieve water.

(C) Clayey soil

(B) 8 -10 feet

(C) Gowri Purnima

(D) all the above

Answer is (B) Pillas

No. Bhavanapadu is a village on the coastline of Andhra Pradesh. Ours is a village Nandamaru, Unguturu Mandal in West Godavari district.

(A) Tool kit

In our city, Vijayawada both saline and potable waters are found. The water supplied by Corporation is potable water. In many areas, people use bore pumps for domestic purposes. Of these, some are saline and some are potable.

(A) Bhavanapadu