Maharashtra SSC Water Security Grade case studies
Maharashtra SSC Water Security Grade · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Maharashtra SSC Water Security Grade is a state-level certificate course for people who need a working, practical command of water security in Maharashtra's particular setting - a state of extreme rainfall contrast, hard-rock aquifers, sugarcane and horticulture belts, and a dense patchwork of dams, canals and village supply schemes. Candidates typically include school-leavers and SSC-level students building a vocational profile, gram panchayat and water committee members, NGO and self-help group workers, teachers, and field staff in rural water supply, agriculture and sanitation. The Maharashtra SSC Water Security Grade case studies are 5 cases and about 3,076 words.
1Allocating a shrinking reservoir in a dry Marathwada year
On 1 June, the Khandala medium irrigation project in Jalna district holds 18.0 million cubic metres (MCM) of live storage against a designed live storage of 31 MCM. The previous monsoon in its catchment was 58% of normal.
742 words, about 4 min2When a check-dam cascade redistributes water upstream
The Bhogaon watershed, 4,800 hectares in Kolhapur district, received 38 loose-boulder check dams and 60 farm ponds under a watershed development programme between 2018 and 2023. A post-monsoon study found that wells in the upper 900 hectares rose by 2.5 to 3 metres, while 180 hectares of paddy and a 40-hectare lift irrigation scheme downstream lost their late-kharif supply; downstream well levels fell by about 1 metre.
581 words, about 3 min3Two unsafe sources and a boiling-only plan
Two sources serve Pipri, a village of 1,900 people in eastern Vidarbha. A 12-metre dug well near a cattle shed and 60 household soak pits has nitrate of 78 mg/L and faecal coliforms present.
549 words, about 3 min4Crop water productivity on a Sangli canal farm
At Palus in Sangli district, a farmer irrigates 2 hectares of sugarcane from a canal and a 7.5 hp pump. The crop yields 100 tonnes per hectare and consumes about 2,000 mm of water, including canal losses charged to the field.
611 words, about 3 min5A piped scheme that nobody owns
Chincholi village, 4,200 people in Ahmednagar district, has a Jal Jeevan Mission piped scheme commissioned in 2021: a borewell yielding 8 litres per second, a 200 m3 overhead tank, and 640 household connections. Design supply is 70 litres per capita per day, but supply is two hours every third day.
593 words, about 3 min