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▪️BENEFITS OF MICRO WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

✅ For draught prone area: Micro-watershed management became inevitable for the development in droughtprone and semi-arid regions that could sort out the problem of water scarcity and drought. Micro-watershed projects can prevent unwanted evaporation by increasing the biomass component of the area.
✅Restoration of Natural Water resources: By Restoring the natural resources of water collection like ponds, lakes. etc.
✅Infrastructure Development: It leads to development of infrastructures like tanks, artificial ponds, check dams,
etc. to store the rainwater and increase the moisture level of the soil.
✅Increased Water user Efficiency: It also includes Improving water use efficiency for agriculture with methods
like drip irrigation and sprinkle irrigation.
✅ Prevention of Soil Erosion: It also helps in Preventing soil erosion, planting trees in the wastelands, groundwater reaching, and conservation of soil moisture.
✅Improves Quality of Life: Micro Water shed management helps in Improving the quality of life of the drought-prone region by the increased availability of water both for drinking and irrigation purposes
🔸E.g., Women and Girls will not have to trudge longer distances for fetching water.
✅It improves the quality of life of villagers through increased productivity of the land, availability of water—surface and ground, an increase in the vegetation cover, improving cattle health resulting in higher milk production, and improving the overall environment by tree plantation.
✅Corresponding Development in Vegetation: Increasing the vegetation occur in semi-arid regions by rational utilization of water resources. Micro-watershed development can result in phenomenal success in regions like Vidarbha. Bundelkhand. & Rajasthan.

✅Conclusion : Thus, Micro water shed management is an area specific decentralized approach with improved chances of better implementation.
Activities such as desiltation of common water bodies like wells, lakes and building of check dams on small rivers will improve water availability.

It also gives scope for application of traditional knowledge of communities in conservation of water.

(SWAJAL Scheme)

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▪️BENEFITS OF MICRO WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

✅ For draught prone area: Micro-watershed management became inevitable for the development in droughtprone and semi-arid regions that could sort out the problem of water scarcity and drought. Micro-watershed projects can prevent unwanted evaporation by increasing the biomass component of the area.
✅Restoration of Natural Water resources: By Restoring the natural resources of water collection like ponds, lakes. etc.
✅Infrastructure Development: It leads to development of infrastructures like tanks, artificial ponds, check dams,
etc. to store the rainwater and increase the moisture level of the soil.
✅Increased Water user Efficiency: It also includes Improving water use efficiency for agriculture with methods
like drip irrigation and sprinkle irrigation.
✅ Prevention of Soil Erosion: It also helps in Preventing soil erosion, planting trees in the wastelands, groundwater reaching, and conservation of soil moisture.
✅Improves Quality of Life: Micro Water shed management helps in Improving the quality of life of the drought-prone region by the increased availability of water both for drinking and irrigation purposes
🔸E.g., Women and Girls will not have to trudge longer distances for fetching water.
✅It improves the quality of life of villagers through increased productivity of the land, availability of water—surface and ground, an increase in the vegetation cover, improving cattle health resulting in higher milk production, and improving the overall environment by tree plantation.
✅Corresponding Development in Vegetation: Increasing the vegetation occur in semi-arid regions by rational utilization of water resources. Micro-watershed development can result in phenomenal success in regions like Vidarbha. Bundelkhand. & Rajasthan.

✅Conclusion : Thus, Micro water shed management is an area specific decentralized approach with improved chances of better implementation.
Activities such as desiltation of common water bodies like wells, lakes and building of check dams on small rivers will improve water availability.

It also gives scope for application of traditional knowledge of communities in conservation of water.

(SWAJAL Scheme)

Part 2/2

#mains

Source - OnlyIAS

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