Recently, due to climate change, the environment is deteriorating in many parts of the world. Where there is heavy rain and where it is dry. Such a situation has now been seen in the coastal areas of Odisha. It has been officially informed that the ground water level is gradually decreasing in the areas near the sea. This is the case in the industrial Paradeep of Jagatsinghpur district. Where fresh water was found below 280 meters less than 4 years, now the water has fallen below 295 to 300 meters. Those who installed tube wells for their own houses less than 5 years ago have installed new tube wells. Because iron-rich water is coming out of the old well. Bubu Tarenia, a resident of Paradip Udayvihar, said that the amount of water is not as it used to be. In this regard, after asking Manas Ranjan Murmu, the junior engineer of the local public health department, such a problem has arisen in the tube wells that were there before 2018. Because the ground water is gradually decreasing.
In Nuabazar area of Paradip, fresh water is found at a depth of 260 to 270 meters, while in Vijayachandrapur area, it is 285 to 290 meters and in Innergarh, water is coming out below 300 meters. The government is now going to adopt an alternative approach to reduce the use of groundwater. Water will be brought from river Jaipur and stored at Kujang Santara. The said water will be purified and supplied to the rural areas of Paradip Town and Kujung Block in an area of 2 acres. For this, preliminary survey work has been completed. It is proposed that around Rs. 100 crores will be spent for this. 16 million liters of water is required daily for Paradeep city. In most places people are using ground water. He said that there is a possibility of crisis in the coming days. According to another report, industries in Paradeep are said to be secretly using ground water for factories. There is no official restriction for them. The Department of Public Health has said that it is no longer in a position to monitor it. A geologist should look into it. It is worth noting that since there are no such measures for water management in Paradeep, some people are purifying the ground water, bottling it and selling it. This is going on in more than 5 places. On the one hand, the water level is decreasing, on the other hand, there is a water crisis due to the commercialization of water.
