Saturday | 5 October 2024 | Reg No- 06
বাংলা
   
Saturday | 5 October 2024 | Epaper
BREAKING: ● 3 die in Sherpur flood; 60,000 stranded      ● Ex-president Badruddoza Chowdhury passes away      ● Killing during students' movement: 9 bodies to be exhumed in Sylhet      ● Malaysian prime minister leaves Dhaka for home      ● CA seeks Malaysian support for Bangladesh to be ASEAN dialogue partner      ● Malaysian PM assures of attention to 18,000 Bangladesh workers       ● Bid to kill Khaleda Zia: Sheikh Hasina among 113 sued      

Water crisis turned severe in Jhenaidah

Published : Saturday, 27 April, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 357
Our Correspondent
JHENAIDAH, Apr 26: Heatwave burning is continuing in the district, damaging croplands, crippling public life and animals, and hampering household works.

With the continuous warming, the water crisis has been turned severe in Jhenaidah; tube-wells and shallow pumps are failing to lift adequate water.

A recent visit to Gopalpur Field near Jhenaidagh Bazar found one Ibadat Hossain irrigating his paddy field through shallow pump; but it was not lifting enough water.

He said, only two weeks back, the pump could lift adequate water; now the machine has been set up in four/five foot deep; but despite this deep boring, the pump fails to lift water.

If no downpour soon, thousands of farmers like him will face irrigation disarray in the district, he added.

About 50,000 hand-run tube-wells in six upazilas of the district are also failing to lift adequate water.

Local victims blamed excessive water lifting for IRRI-Boro irrigation and water filling in newly dug ponds, causing groundwater layers downing.  

In the district, most beels, marshes, ponds and rivers have dried; about 80 per cent water drying was reported in rivers flowing over the district; and farmers are cultivating paddy on their dried beds.

Usually groundwater layers remain 20-30 foot deep. But at present, water layers are not available in even 30-40 foot deep.
 
Sources at Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC)-Jhenaidah said, several thousands of shallow and deep tube-wells have been installed at individual level in the district without permission; as these pumps are not lifting water according to rules, the water layers are going down.
 
A local electrician at Gopalpur Bazar Humayun Kabir said, "At present 5-6 farmers are reporting that their mortars can pump out water. But we can give any solution."

Executive Engineer of the Department of Public Health in the district Aminul Islam said, "It is not contained in our statistics how many tube-wells are across the district at the individual or personal levels."

But there are 17,000 deep tube-wells and 18,000 shallow pumps at the government level, he added.

He further said, these pumps are in normal order. If tube-wells are set up following the advice of engineers, there will be less crisis of water in the dry season, the official maintained.

BADCs Assistant Engineer (Small Irrigation) Md Jahid Hasan said, this is the time of dry and warming; normally this time less water remains in rivers; that is why groundwater layers go down a bit; it needs to be careful in using water.

If pumps are set up according to rules of the office concerned, the water crisis will be no longer, the official added.



LATEST NEWS
MOST READ
Also read
Seven found dead in five districts
3,086 puja mandaps being set up in five districts
Unplanned RCC footover bridges turn useless 
26 nabbed with drugs in 12 districts 
RWASA plans to install meters to reduce system loss
Load-shedding hampers treatment in Kamalganj hospital 
T-Aman fields growing brightly at Amtali
Bithi becomes widow before first marriage anniversary! 
Editor : Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury
Published by the Editor on behalf of the Observer Ltd. from Globe Printers, 24/A, New Eskaton Road, Ramna, Dhaka.
Editorial, News and Commercial Offices : Aziz Bhaban (2nd floor), 93, Motijheel C/A, Dhaka-1000.
Phone: PABX- 41053001-06; Online: 41053014; Advertisement: 41053012.
E-mail: info©dailyobserverbd.com, news©dailyobserverbd.com, advertisement©dailyobserverbd.com, For Online Edition: mailobserverbd©gmail.com
🔝