Dhading village turns to deep bore-well as water sources dry.
Dhading, June 29 Locals of Jwalamukhi Rural Municipality, Dhading, who were facing acute shortage of drinking water, have now a reason to smile as they have managed to extract underground water through deep boring.
The villagers were reeling under water scarcity after water sources in their locality dried up following the devastating 2015 earthquakes.
Under a local initiative with support from the District Coordination Committee, Jyawamukhi Rural Municipality and DTH Rock Dealing Company, the locals have drilled a deep bore-well.
Then VDC chairman Ram Hari Pokhrel said they had to drill 120 metres deep for water, adding that now water would be supplied for local consumption and long endured water crisis would end.
The villagers will now be able to extract around 30,000 litres of water in an hour from the well.
The project cost Rs 40 lakh, said Pokharel.
A version of this article appears in print on June 30, 2017 of The Himalayan Times.

The Wisconsin State Journal reported wells no longer require environmental reviews from regulators in these cases.
The wells serve numerous purposes across the state, ranging from irrigation for farm fields to drinking water for communities.
Spanning across six counties in central Wisconsin, this area has made headlines due to its abundance of high-capacity wells and shrinking water levels.
Long Lake, once home to trophy fishing, has lost surface to the point many houses no longer have a waterfront view, Billingham said.
Billingham said the league isn’t against high-capacity wells in general but it wants to see protections, including reviews and studies of the cumulative effects of multiple high-capacity wells.
“We have more lakes than Minnesota and we want to keep those 10,000 lakes,” he said.
Land with bedrock can require drilling 300 feet or more for water.
Farming needs Webb said he didn’t have an irrigation system in 2012 when his fields suffered from drought.
Drought is one of the most devastating disasters to befall a farmer, and irrigation provides assurance, Zimmerman said.
DNR records show the well pumped more than 4 million gallons last May and more than 3 million last June, the two highest months.

Three Ways To Find Safe Drinking Water.
Tags boilsbottled water banchlorine in waterCommunitycontaminated waterfluoride in waternaegleria in drinking waterpublic healthUS waterswaterwater conservationwater shortagewater supply Having safe water to drink is something that many people take for granted.
If you own a home and have water, whether it’s city water or well water, you’re usually lucky enough to be able to safely drink that water (although, not always).
You need water and it’s said that a human cannot live without water (from some source, even foods that are rich in it can help) for more than three days, although some people have tripled that (but why try?).
Check With Your Community Water System If you have city water and you suspect there is something wrong with it, or just want to know what might be lurking within each glass of it you drink, you can contact the purveyors of your local water system.
If you have a well and feel that something is amiss with your drinking water, it’s all on you.
Buy A Filter Some of the normal things that are found in water systems, like iron and arsenic (in very low amounts), can be filtered out.
There are tap connecting water filtration systems that allow you to get filtered water right from the tap.
Purchase Bottled Water Or Boil Water You could purchase bottled water in a pinch when fresh drinking water isn’t available.
Boil it, let it cool to room temperature and then refrigerate it until it’s cold enough to drink or add in some ice cubes.

Banga Roriki is working with his nephew, Robin, who has been living in this house, on Majuro, one of the Marshall Islands, for 22 years.
CHIP FLETCHER: Sea level is rising in certain parts of the pacific faster than anywhere else in the world.
MIKE TAIBBI: What’s the biggest threat now to the Marshall Islands?
the family relies on rainwater catchment tanks for water — but those remain practically empty because of a relentless drought.
Getting fresh water has always been a preoccupation for the Marshall Islands.
The freshwater wells and underground aquifers are at risk of being fouled by salt water from frequent flooding some wells already spoiled because of high tides driven by rising sea level.
On Majuro, home to 27,000 residents, severe weather events put enormous pressure on the main water source — seven reservoirs that store rainwater collected from the airport’s runway.
MIKE TAIBBI: But deBrum says he’s confident coming improvements will one day provide all residents 24/7 water access, even during droughts.
MIKE TAIBBI: Do you use it to drink, or just cook with it?
Ferries throughout the day from Kwaj bring jugs of good, free and safe water from the base’s own state of the art desalination plant.

Stuart may try to ID, sue whoever polluted drinking-water wells with PFOS and PFOA.
The water contained high levels of dangerous PFOS and PFOA, chemicals once used to make nonstick pans, fire extinguishing foam and water- and stain-resistant fabrics.
The city closed and replaced the wells that were contaminating the water supply to all customers in 2016, and it continues to incur cleanup costs.
At its June 26 meeting, the City Commission will consider an offer by Florida law firm Morgan & Morgan and national law firm Weitz & Luxenberg to determine how the chemicals got into the well water and represent the city in what could be a nationwide lawsuit.
More: Stuart replaced wells after EPA found too much PFOS and PFOA in drinking water Win-win If the lawsuit is successful, the city will get 60 percent of the money awarded and the law firms 40 percent.
"If they lose the case, there’s no cost to the city," Mortell said.
Stuart would be the first to sign up for the lawsuit, Mortell said.
Cleanup costs Equipment to filter the chemicals out of water will cost "upwards of $600,000," said Dave Peters, Stuart’s assistant public works director.
"The city currently meets all water quality regulations," Peters said.
More: How’s the water?

Despite GenX worries, well water can bring own set of concerns.
Concerned about contamination in the region’s groundwater, Rick Catlin, an environmental engineer and former state legislator, is pushing New Hanover County to adopt a permitting system for private wells.
“We want to make sure people aren’t putting wells in near contaminated sites,” Catlin said.
The safety of the region’s drinking water has been in question after a StarNews story earlier this month revealed researchers had found GenX, a man-made chemical used in Teflon and a host of other products, in the Cape Fear River and the drinking water supply of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA).
Chemours, a Delaware-based chemical company that makes the chemical at a plant roughly 100 miles up the Cape Fear River from Wilmington, announced this week it will take steps to capture all wastewater containing the GenX chemical, remove the substance and dispose of it.
“In the confined aquifers, I would not think there would be an issue (with GenX),” Shew said.
Personally, for me, I’d like to do substitute for the drinking water for now.” Statewide, national issue During a meeting earlier this week with New Hanover County Manager Chris Coudriet and Health Director Phillip Tarte, Catlin shared his map of known contamination sites with the county officials.
“When you put it on a map and plot it, it is not just relegated to New Hanover County,” Tarte said.
“We have these known (contamination) sites,” Coudriet said.
“By ordinance, once a customer is connected to our system,” a CFPUA spokeswoman wrote, “they are not permitted to disconnect and move to an alternate water source.” Reporter Adam Wagner can be reached at 910-343-2389 or Adam.Wagner@GateHouseMedia.com.

Cryptosporidium.
Kewaunee County and its neighbors have a serious groundwater contamination problem.
A recent study not only found that wells in areas of greater soil depth were being contaminated with dangerous pathogens, but that up to 60 percent of wells tested were affected, nearly doubling the tally from previous studies.
In 2014, Clean Wisconsin, along with Midwest Environmental Advocates and local citizens, filed a Safe Drinking Water Act petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asking for help for Kewaunee County residents.
Kewaunee County’s geology makes it vulnerable to groundwater contamination from manure spreading on the landscape.
Kewaunee County residents deserve a robust and thorough effort from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to address drinking water contamination.
For much of the past year, the DNR has pointed to a new set of protections being drafted as their effort to address drinking water contamination from livestock manure.
Access to clean, safe drinking water is every Wisconsin citizens’ right.
Through these protections, we think the DNR can reduce the risk of drinking water contamination by: Putting limits on when, where and how manure can be spread.
By writing strong rules, the DNR can help citizens with contaminated drinking water have safe wells that draw clean water while giving farmers the tools to effectively manage their livestock byproduct.

Ground water levels declining fast in Maharashtra.
The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), under the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development monitors water levels of designated water bodies including wells in various states, in an attempt to ensure sustainable development and management of ground water resources in the country.
Data from wells has shown that 70 per cent of the wells being monitored showed a decline in water levels in Maharashtra.
This study indicated a decline in ground water levels in 70 per cent of the wells monitored.
Ground water is primarily used for irrigation, drinking and industrial purposes.
The inadequate recharging of ground water, inappropriate cropping pattern and wasteful use of water accentuated the problem.
Maharashtra presently has 16,000 km of rivers and canals.
It also has water bodies spread over 3.83 lakh hectares.
There has been severe over exploitation of water bodies in the state.
The fourth Minor Irrigation Census conducted in 2006-07 said that there were over 21.5 lakh wells and borewells across Maharashtra.

Cryptosporidium.
Kewaunee County and its neighbors have a serious groundwater contamination problem.
A recent study not only found that wells in areas of greater soil depth were being contaminated with dangerous pathogens, but that up to 60 percent of wells tested were affected, nearly doubling the tally from previous studies.
In 2014, Clean Wisconsin, along with Midwest Environmental Advocates and local citizens, filed a Safe Drinking Water Act petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asking for help for Kewaunee County residents.
Kewaunee County’s geology makes it vulnerable to groundwater contamination from manure spreading on the landscape.
Kewaunee County residents deserve a robust and thorough effort from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to address drinking water contamination.
For much of the past year, the DNR has pointed to a new set of protections being drafted as their effort to address drinking water contamination from livestock manure.
Access to clean, safe drinking water is every Wisconsin citizens’ right.
Through these protections, we think the DNR can reduce the risk of drinking water contamination by: Putting limits on when, where and how manure can be spread.
By writing strong rules, the DNR can help citizens with contaminated drinking water have safe wells that draw clean water while giving farmers the tools to effectively manage their livestock byproduct.

Kewaunee County and its neighbors have a serious groundwater contamination problem.
A recent study not only found that wells in areas of greater soil depth were being contaminated with dangerous pathogens, but that up to 60 percent of wells tested were affected, nearly doubling the tally from previous studies.
In 2014, Clean Wisconsin, along with Midwest Environmental Advocates and local citizens, filed a Safe Drinking Water Act petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asking for help for Kewaunee County residents.
Kewaunee County’s geology makes it vulnerable to groundwater contamination from manure spreading on the landscape.
Kewaunee County residents deserve a robust and thorough effort from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to address drinking water contamination.
For much of the past year, the DNR has pointed to a new set of protections being drafted as their effort to address drinking water contamination from livestock manure.
Access to clean, safe drinking water is every Wisconsin citizens’ right.
For too long, too many citizens in Kewaunee County and elsewhere in the state have been denied that right.
Through these protections, we think the DNR can reduce the risk of drinking water contamination by: Putting limits on when, where and how manure can be spread.
By writing strong rules, the DNR can help citizens with contaminated drinking water have safe wells that draw clean water while giving farmers the tools to effectively manage their livestock byproduct.