BSS, Rajshahi :
Managed aquifer recharge is being promoted in the high barind area to halt the gradually declining ground water level.
In the drought-prone area, people are now becoming more conscious to halt the alarming declining of ground water layer. Aquifer recharge activities are being done in household level side by side with various institutions and industries artificially.
Shafiqul Islam, a farmer of Kadigram village under Kakonhat Pourasava in Godagari Upazila, has arranged aquifer recharge system in his house. He is harvesting rainwater from around 3,000 square feet rooftop area of seven rooms through 4-inch diameter PVC pipe and conserving those in tank constructed with one-foot height and three-feet diameter six concrete ring slabs.
Farmer Islam is using the conserved water for household purposes through a tap fixed in lower part of the tank. Surplus water is being conserved in the recharge tank through another upper portion wide pipe.
After filtering there the stored water is being injected into 140 feet underground sand layer. House-owner Shafiqul Islam said Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Project inspired him and extended financial support to the venture. The IWRM project is being implemented in drought affected 35 union parishads and four pourasavas in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts since 2015 by DASCOH Foundation and Swiss Red Cross with financial support from Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
Shafiqul Islam viewed if his neighbours take initiative of aquifer recharge and use water judiciously desired result will come obviously.
Prof Dr Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan from Department of Geology and Mining of Rajshahi University provided technical suggestion. There are 32 heavy auto rice mills within three squire kilometers radius area at water-stressed Jhilim Union under Chapainawabgonj district. The mills extract huge underground water every day through 120 deep tube-wells. For this reason, the nearby tube-wells became non-functional.
So, Jhilim UP Chairman Tasiqul Islam has taken necessary initiative so that all the auto rice mills can send their rooftop rainwater to ground water layer.
Responding to his call Mukhlesur Rahman, owner of Jotsna Auto Rice Mill, has adopted necessary step of aquifer recharge through injecting rainwater of his 60,000 squire-feet rooftop area.
UP Chairman Tasiqul Islam has a farsighted plan of aquifer recharge through sending rainwater of 25 lakh squire-feet rooftop area of all 32 auto rice mills and he intends to materialize his dream.
Similarly, Jahangir Alam Khan, Assistant Coordinator of IWRM Project, said the managed aquifer recharge method has been promoted to 15 other households and 17 institutions including Kakonhat Pourasava auditorium. People are getting drinking water easily through hand driven tube-wells there as an outcome of the venture.
In the wake of inadequate aquifer recharge, groundwater level is declining alarmingly in the high Barind tract posing a serious threat to its farming sector besides living and livelihood condition.
More than 2.5 lakh people in high Barind tract are facing an acute water crisis as ground water level falls below 130 feet in their areas, added Jahangir Khan.
“We extract huge water from underground every day for various purposes including irrigation to farmlands but time has come to send water to the underground for its rational recharge,” opined Prof Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan, Consultant of the project.
Managed aquifer recharge is being promoted in the high barind area to halt the gradually declining ground water level.
In the drought-prone area, people are now becoming more conscious to halt the alarming declining of ground water layer. Aquifer recharge activities are being done in household level side by side with various institutions and industries artificially.
Shafiqul Islam, a farmer of Kadigram village under Kakonhat Pourasava in Godagari Upazila, has arranged aquifer recharge system in his house. He is harvesting rainwater from around 3,000 square feet rooftop area of seven rooms through 4-inch diameter PVC pipe and conserving those in tank constructed with one-foot height and three-feet diameter six concrete ring slabs.
Farmer Islam is using the conserved water for household purposes through a tap fixed in lower part of the tank. Surplus water is being conserved in the recharge tank through another upper portion wide pipe.
After filtering there the stored water is being injected into 140 feet underground sand layer. House-owner Shafiqul Islam said Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Project inspired him and extended financial support to the venture. The IWRM project is being implemented in drought affected 35 union parishads and four pourasavas in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts since 2015 by DASCOH Foundation and Swiss Red Cross with financial support from Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
Shafiqul Islam viewed if his neighbours take initiative of aquifer recharge and use water judiciously desired result will come obviously.
Prof Dr Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan from Department of Geology and Mining of Rajshahi University provided technical suggestion. There are 32 heavy auto rice mills within three squire kilometers radius area at water-stressed Jhilim Union under Chapainawabgonj district. The mills extract huge underground water every day through 120 deep tube-wells. For this reason, the nearby tube-wells became non-functional.
So, Jhilim UP Chairman Tasiqul Islam has taken necessary initiative so that all the auto rice mills can send their rooftop rainwater to ground water layer.
Responding to his call Mukhlesur Rahman, owner of Jotsna Auto Rice Mill, has adopted necessary step of aquifer recharge through injecting rainwater of his 60,000 squire-feet rooftop area.
UP Chairman Tasiqul Islam has a farsighted plan of aquifer recharge through sending rainwater of 25 lakh squire-feet rooftop area of all 32 auto rice mills and he intends to materialize his dream.
Similarly, Jahangir Alam Khan, Assistant Coordinator of IWRM Project, said the managed aquifer recharge method has been promoted to 15 other households and 17 institutions including Kakonhat Pourasava auditorium. People are getting drinking water easily through hand driven tube-wells there as an outcome of the venture.
In the wake of inadequate aquifer recharge, groundwater level is declining alarmingly in the high Barind tract posing a serious threat to its farming sector besides living and livelihood condition.
More than 2.5 lakh people in high Barind tract are facing an acute water crisis as ground water level falls below 130 feet in their areas, added Jahangir Khan.
“We extract huge water from underground every day for various purposes including irrigation to farmlands but time has come to send water to the underground for its rational recharge,” opined Prof Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan, Consultant of the project.
