Unit 2 Ch 3 : Water Resources — Social Studies STD 10 — Question

Bamboo Drip Irrigation System is a 200 year old system of tapping stream and spring water by using bamboo pipe and transporting water from higher to lower regions through gravity.
About 18-20 liters of water enters the bamboo pipe system, get transported over hundreds of meters and finally reduces to 20-80 drops per minute at the site of the plant. Bamboo drip irrigation system is practiced in Meghalaya.
Features of bamboo drip irrigation:

1. Bamboo drip irrigation system is 200 year old system of tapping stream and stripwater by using bamboo pipe.
2. Bamboo pipes are used to divert perennial springs on the hilltops to the lower reaches by gravity.
3. The channel sections, made of bamboo, divert water to the plant site where it is distributed into branches.