This Jharkhand farmer spent 14 years digging a pond
19.05.12
Destitution is the mother of all inventions, says the old proverb. Today's transformed world has evolved new experiences that limit the old adages too: Denial is the new mother of all inventions.
And sixty five-year old Shayamal Chaudhary of Jharkhand proved it fact by single-handedly digging a pond in his village with fourteen years of dedicated feat.
A farmer from Vishnu Pur of Kurua village, Sukhjora Panchayat, Shyamal Chaudhary, requested the Stump Development Officer to have a pond dug that would fulfil the irrigation requirements of the fields. After filing several applications and visiting the officer of the law many a times, a determined Shayamal lost neither courage nor his farming skills.
Rather than, he took this denial as a challenge and started digging a pond on his own land. After fourteen years of persistent hard work, he not only created a pond but gifted it to the community that was going through hard times in the paucity of irrigation related facilities.
Source: Deccan Chronicle
Wiggins town water purchase hits snag
19.05.12
An venture to buy more water for the Wiggins water project has come to a halt, but the town still has enough splash rights to begin pumping a new water source in October.
Wiggins officials were hoping to buy nine shares of Weldon Valley Ditch Co. water from the Deganhart homestead, but that required a way to store the water. There were plans in place to do that, but the ditch company advisers aboard would not approve one plan and the Orphan Wells of Wiggins decided not to let the town hire out its augmentation system, said water attorney Rick Fendel of Petrock and Fendel during a trade session of the Wiggins Board of Trustees Wednesday evening.
That still leaves about 70 acre feet of bedew dilute from the rights the town bought from the Kammerer farm, and that should last through the winter until water starts flowing in the Weldon Valley ditch again, said Miranda Larsen-Funk of LeonardRice Engineers.
That means the new shower system will still start delivering water to the town in October.
However, Wiggins
Source: Fort Morgan Times