Ideal water resource areas listed

Hyderabad: The Central Ground Water Board, the national-level apex body under the ministry of water resources, identified deep fracture areas in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state for creating ideal groundwater resource areas.“Deep fracture areas are those which are generally found to have good groundwater table,” said Damodhar Rao, regional director, Central Ground Water Board. He added, “We identified five such deep fracture areas, one in Hyderabad at Jubilee Hills, and others in Kadapa, Kurnool and Guntur.”

The CGWB recently imported high-end rig machinery (borewill digging machine) that is capable of drilling borewells up to 500 metre (more than 1,500 feet).

“The rig machine we will be deploying to drill borewell in these areas for deep exploration of the area and also to develop them into ideal water resources for replication,” said K.B. Biswas, chairman, Central Ground Water Board, New Delhi. Borewells were dug with the depth range of 150-200 feet initially. The depth of borewells increased to 300-1000 feet in some areas.