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LIFT IRRIGATION

– When water is lifted surface sources or underground

source by man or other mechanical power and directly
supplied to the agricultural land , then it is know as lift
irrigation.
METHOD OF LIFTING
WATER
– INDIGENOUS METHOD
– MECHANICAL METHOD
INDIGENOUS
METHOD
– Basket
– Doon
– Denki
– Archimedean screw
– Windlass
– mote
MECHANICAL
METHOD
– WINDMILL
– HYDRAULIC RAM
– PUMPS
TYPE OF PUMP

– DEEP WELL TURBINE PUMP

– DEEP WELL JET PUMP
– AIR LIFT PUMP
ADVANTAGE

– There is no possibility of over irrigation

– Water table is lowered when water is lifted from the well
thereby reducing chances of water logging in area.
– Loss of water is low , hence duty is high.
– The maintenance cost is low.
– Loss of valuable land is prevented as there is no necessity
of constructing the network of canal
TANK IRRIGATION

– It is defined as the storage irrigation scheme, which

utilises the water stored on the upstream side of a smaller
earth dam, called bund.
– The earthen bunds reservoir are called tank.
– Tanks possess a maximum depth of 4.5m while a few are
as 7.5 to 9 m and few exceptional one exceed 11m
– When the depth of tank exceed 12m or so , the tank is
generally referred as reservoir
Conditions Required for Tank Irrigation
– 1. There should be hard rocks or impervious layer below so
that water does not seep in.
– 2. There should be some means of filling up again.
Advantages of Tank Irrigation
– It allows the surplus water during monsoons to be stored
and used later.
– It is easy and economical to construct.
– It helps to raise the underground water level.
Disadvantages of Tank Irrigation
– 1. Tanks use up large areas of land which could be used for
agriculture.
– 2. They dry up in summer and are not of much use.
– 3. A lot of water evaporates as they are very shallow.
– 4. It is difficult to carry water to the fields due to rocky
terrain.
The tanks are popular in the Deccan because
– 1. Natural depressions are found here so they are cheaper
to build
– 2. Non Porous rocks found here prevent seepage of water
– 3. A number of streams are found here, which overflow
during the rainy season. So water which would have got
wasted is utilized.
– 4: The population and agricultural fields are scattered so
tank irrigation is well suited.
TANKS IN SERIES
– Any tank either receives the surplus water of the upper
tanks or send its own surplus into the some lower tank
ISOLATED TANK
– When tank neither receives water from a upper tank nor
discharge its own surplus into a lower tank
TANK SLUICES OR TANK OUTLET
– Tank sluice is an opening in form of a culvert or a pipe
running through or under tank bund and supplying water
from tank to distributaries channel