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Reviving dry bore-wells [1]

Hydro-fracturing is one way of cleaning the blockage in the fissure and releasing water back into the bore wells

Many of these bore wells have yielded well in the past but now are dry. This is true of almost all the Southern states. When these life providing bore wells fail they cause great trouble as alternative sources of water are sought.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2009
Hindu (Chennai) [2]
Tags:
Water Resources [3], Wells [4], Water Conservation [5], Water Harvesting [6], Tamil Nadu [7]
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tamil-nadu