Method matters in inter linking rivers

SECTION 5:
RETICULAR CANAL SYSTEM FOR
INTERLINKING INDIAN RIVERS.
By,
Dr. Shivu. P.
No. 757, Vinayamarga,
11th cross, Siddarthanagar, Mysore
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Water.
• Do you want Water?
• Ans: Yes, No controversies for this answer.
• Is all are getting sufficient water ?
• Ans: No, No controversies for this answer.
• Do you want to get the permanent solution for this water scarcity?
• Ans: Yes, No controversies for this answer.
• Do you want to interlink the rivers to solve the problem of water
scarcity?
• Ans: Yes And No, Many controversies for this answer.
• Why controversies aroused for ILR?
• Ans: Many plans – many views with imbalance in the advantages and
disadvantages.

Interlinking Rivers.
Thought came to the
peoples mind.
• Nature destruction,
• Changes to the bio
flora.
• Back water.
• Forest land
involved.
Reticular canal system – which no one knows
at present.
• Protecting the nature by preventing
deforestation and desertification,
• Protecting the bio flora by proving the home
through re forestation and relakification .
• No or minimal Back water.
• Less Forest land involved facilitates
reforestation.

Thought came to the
peoples mind.
• Creation cost.
• Cities that are going to
immerse.
• Cutting the hills and
mountains.
• Underground canals.
Reticular canal system – which no one
knows at present.
• Less Creation cost.
• No Cities are going to immerse.
• No Cutting the hills and mountains,
and it is a simple surface canal.
• No or very less Underground
canals.

Thought came to the
peoples mind.
• Big structures – dams
and reservoirs.
• Elevations and
depressions in the
land.
• Very depressed land
between himalaya
and aravalli – vindya
mountains.
Reticular canal system – which no one knows
at present.
• No Big structures – dams and reservoirs.
• Overcoming the Elevations and depressions in
the land by under standing earths surface well
and through simple structures like CE, bidams,
aquaducts, direct canal connectors.
• Shift of water across the very depressed land
between himalaya and aravalli – vindya
mountains can be managed with safe structures
like U tube.

Thought came to the
peoples mind.
• Turbulence of the
water flow.
• Thinking about the
ILR at the lower when
once the water body
becomes huge.
Reticular canal system – which no one
knows at present.
• Handling the water at the higher level at
multiple points instead of handling at
the lower level where the water mass is
huge and Turbulent.
• Thinking about the ILR at the higher
when water body is small but at
multiple points.

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Water
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Seven percent of the world's population has not enough water.
By 2050, this will be 70 percent.
Our planet has 1,400 million million million liters of water:
100 billion liters a head.
But, 97 percent is salty and much of the rest is trapped underground
or stored as polar ice.
Only 0.8 percent of the Earth's water is accessible and drinkable:
about one billion billion liters.
It is enough on an average.
But some countries have too much. Others have too little.

Water
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The nation need to understand the seriousness behind
this issue and act accordingly for the supply of water to
all the parts of the country on an emergency basis.
If we take rest for few years by not taking any serious
thought to get the water for all our people of the nation
now and if we plan the same after some years.

Water
• if we plan the same after some years by that time we
may be in a position to do the project but the
international laws may stop us not to carry out any such
projects and the people of the nation is going suffer from
the deficiency.
• The word ‘war for water’ needs to be understood
efficiently.

Reticular canal system is a new concept for
Interlinking rivers.
Deforestation
(For example - The roots of the trees will not get sufficient water to survive with
decreasing underground water level, this type of injury to the nature can involve many
trees and the entire forest, we have seen the incidences like trees falling suddenly and
killing the people and damaging the property as the root dries up silently),
Desertification,
Less rain,
Malnutrition / nutrition related diseases,
Poverty,
Animals dying of dehydration,
Pollution,
Global warming,
are the ongoing ecological disaster and we will ‘land up in grave
disaster’ if we are not thinking about the solution for the same.

Reticular canal system is a new concept
for Interlinking rivers.
Such expected disasters needs to be addressed with
reforestation,
soil conservation,
preventing rural to urban migration
by preventing repeated loss in agriculture,
preventing uncontrolled urbanisation and so on.
All these depend on improving the rural economy,
education and infrastructure.
Rural economy depends on irrigation and agriculture.

RETICULAR CANAL SYSTEM FOR INTERLINKING INDIAN RIVERS
Story of the canal:
Declining (Vertical) canal:
• I am the canal and I always
run vertically down that is
how you planned and
crated.
Flat (Horizontal) canal:
• I am the canal and I have
the ambition to run
horizontally so that both
my ends are at the same
level that you need to plan
and crate.

Story of the canal:
• I have only one inlet to get
my water that is the
reservoir / dam, that may
or may not have the store
of water in it always but I
have multiple outlets.
• I can have multiple inlets in
terms of hundred or
thousands, why only one?
to get my water , thus I
hope not all of them
becomes dry in a single
time.

Story of the canal:
• If my inlet gets the water
from the reservoir then I
can serve you other wise I
lay dry.
• If any one of my inlets gets
the water from the
catchment area, it need not
be the artificial reservoir,
then I can serve you all the
time throughout the year
and thus I will never lay
dry.

Story of the canal:
• I provide the passage for
water to flow to the needy
area unlike the natural
water pathway where the
water is in the hurry to
reach the sea as early as
possible, I do so because
you created me with your
hard work.
• I can also provide the
passage for water to flow
to the needy area unlike
my previous vertical sibling
without any hurry to reach
the sea and thus I can do
the work of irrigating the
needy area better than my
vertical sibling, this you
need to think and create.

Story of the canal:
Story of the canal:
• You have always created
me on the sides of the
naturally flowing water
pathways may be little
away but never took me
out of one river basin, that
means I serve the same
geographical area.
• You need to understand the
surface of the earth in a
better way to create me not
on the sides of the naturally
flowing water pathways but I
can cross all the rivers all
along my course receiving the
volume of water I need to
serve the humanity covering
not only one river basin but
all the river basins whom I
cross, that means I can serve
different geographical areas.

Story of the canal:
• If no one uses my water in
remote possibility then
again I drain in to the same
river to reach the sea.
• If no one uses my water in
a particular area then I can
take that water to other
needy area even to other
river basin, from north to
south, south to north, east
to west and west to east.

Story of the canal:
• When there is rain in the
catchment area of my
reservoir and where my
reservoir is full then I and
my reservoir will allow the
water to flow to the sea
even there is drought in the
neighboring river areas.
• When there is rain above
my level I can provide
water to all the needy
areas below my level and
thus I will not allow the
water simply to reach the
sea if somebody needs
water for any reason.

Comparison between the primary canals which are declining
(Flow based / Unidirectional flow) and flat (Bidirectional
flow).
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Comparison between the primary canals which are declining
(Unidirectional flow) and flat (Bidirectional flow).
135

Comparison between the primary canals which are
declining (Unidirectional flow) and flat (Bidirectional
flow):
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135

Story of the canal:
• The starting point of the
canal will be higher than
the ending point
• The starting and the ending
points of the canal are at
the same level .

Story of the canal:
• The water flows from the
higher end to the lower
end
• Water will flow from the
place of more water to the
less water in the canal,

Story of the canal:
• Every drop of water which
enter in to the canal will
tend to move towards the
lower end and accumulates
there,
• Every drop of water which
enter in to the canal will
make the water level in the
canal to rise all along its
course and every drop of
water which leaves the
canal will make the level of
water to decrease all along
its course.

Story of the canal:
• The water pools at the
lower end overflows if not
emptied even with minimal
water.
• There is no pooling of
water at the ends or at any
place in the canal, every
drop of water will be
equally distributed and
equally accessible to all the
places below the level of
the canal.

Story of the canal:
• Law need to be enforced to
decide how much water to
be flown in each gate.
• Only one law is sufficient to
maintain the water in the
canal that is, ‘no water
enter the sea, if there is
some place called ‘drought
prone’.

Story of the canal:
• This canal will not act as
the reservoir for the water
even thought there is lot of
space in the canal available
to accommodate the water,
as all the water tends to
pool in the lower end.
• This canal will act like a
better reservoir of water in
its entire course, with rain
any where above its level,
thus the actual and the
structural capacity will
correspond.

Story of the canal:
• If there is rain in the lower
canal feeding river
catchment area, then the
upper canal area will not
get the benefit.
• Rain any where above the
level of the canal will fill
the canal equally, which is
accessible to all the lands
which is below its level.

Story of the canal:
• The reservoir surface in
terms of square kilometers
is less at the beginning but
will have more area to be
fed, and the reservoir
surface becomes more at
the end but there is less
land available to be fed,
and that more water will
enter in to the sea.
• The reservoir surface in
terms of square kilometers
remains the same all along
the course of the canal and
even at the ends, thus
receives more water at any
point of the canal.

Story of the canal:
• The canal comes closer to
the coastal areas as the
course comes to the south
and thus there is a
possibility that many areas
will not get the water.
• The geographical variations
may be present in terms of
distance, but the canal will
not go closer to the coastal
area unlike the declining
canal. Thus more land
suitable for agriculture will
get the water from the FPC.

Story of the canal:
• Since this is going to
decline along its course, we
will not get better height of
water fall for establishing
the hydro electrical
projects.
• Since the FPC are at the
higher level all along its
course and even at its ends,
thus, more hydro electrical
projects can be established.

Story of the canal:
• There is only north to south
flow; south to north flow or
south to west flow is not
possible.
• There is bi directional flow,
thus even the rain in the
south can supply water to
the north, and vice versa.

Story of the canal:
• All the states are not
equally accessible for every
drop of water present in
the canal.
• All the states, which comes
below the level of the
canals are equally
accessible for every drop of
water without much
intervention of law in it.

Story of the canal:
• Effective monitoring and
administration to distribute
the water is required as it is
unidirectional.
• Monitoring and
administration of the
distribution system is easy
as compared to PC, as it is
bidirectional. – Tell who
ever wants water please
take.

Story of the canal:
• This is a good method to
utilize the water effectively
which is simply reaching
the sea leaving many areas
of land as drought prone,
but not better than FPC
system.
• This method is better than
the declining PC, and all the
water which is generated
above the level of the canal
can be effectively utilized.

RETICULAR CANAL SYSTEM FOR
INTERLINKING INDIAN RIVERS
Inter linking Rivers (Example Ganga
Cauvery interlinking)is the subject.
Reticular Canal System is the method
of Interlinking rivers.
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Topic series: 320
Topic 3: Introduction to RCS and Definitions in RCS.
RCS is like a bus, new passengers gets in and few
passengers gets down from the bus.
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RCS is like a post office; it receives letters from various post
boxes and distributes it to various houses.
RCS is like a college, new batch of students enters the
college and the students who completes the course goes out
of the college,
RCS is like a bank, credit comes from one side and debit
goes on other side,

Topic series: 320
All the naturally flowing water pathways, the canals that
we create to interlink the rivers, the various canals that
we create to distribute the water from these water
pathways will look like the web of canals in the form of
reticulum in aerial view with all the major - minor and
natural - artificial water pathways, thus the name
Reticular Canal system for this system of Interlinking
Indian rivers.
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Definition of Reticular canal system:

Steps in creating RCS
 Map FPC river points eg: FPC1Cauvery500.
 Map CRR (Canal reference line) eg: FPC1CRR500.
 Map multiple CRR, eg: FPC1CRR475, FPC1CRR525.
 Select the best CRR with more than 98% of plain canal possibility (Passes at the junction of forest and
agriculture land, passes less in the forest, does not crosses major cities, has good canal rim thus less
prone for damages like land slides – canal wall damage).
 Map CRL (Canal reference land)of +/- 2meters of level for the be best CRR.
 Identify the structures to be constructed like CE(Canal elevator) DCC (Direct Canal Connector), Aqua
ducts, U tubes, bi dams and so on.
 Map the CL (Canal line) - sea side and hill side edge of the canal in the CRL with good hillside and sea
side rims.
 Note all these are done in the RCS lab with the help of GPS based soft wares eg: Google earth, Bhuvan
of ISRO, or others.

•BIDIRECTIONAL FLOW BETWEEN ‘ARAVALLI – VINDYA’ IN NORTH TO
‘CARDOMOM HILLS’ IN THE SOUTH 500:
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Topic series: 320
RCS of India.

Suppliers of water to the RCS.
Now it is better to create the channel systems in such a way
that it utilizes the surface water to the maximum extent, so that
least water reaches the sea directly.
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When we are creating RCS it is better to depend on the water
source that is continuous over all the 12 months, potable for
drinking, sufficient for irrigation and industry.
INDIA is blessed with plenty of rivers that are flowing all the 12
months, and most of the water is reaching the sea without any
useful utility, for example 70% of the water of GANGA RIVER
reaches the sea.

What Reticular canal system does?
• Collecting the water: RCS assess the water generation in the river
basins and the flow, not only in the catchment area of the reservoirs of
the same river basin, but also ‘from’ and ‘to’, to all the river basins.
• Diverting the water: RCS will divert the water to all the possible places
at the higher level, before the water reaches the lower level.
• Distributing the water: RCS distributes water to all the rivers, lakes,
ponds, reservoirs, artificial canals and to all the places where ever we
want and when ever we want, when there is rain at any place which is
higher to the place of RCS canal / place of storage.

Rain and Reservoir.
Rain and Reservoir:
• Scenario 1: Reservoirs are full
some times.
• Scenario 2: Reservoirs are
some what filled but not to
the extent of releasing the
water.
• Scenario 3: Reservoirs are
empty for many months in a
year.

Rain and Reservoirs:
Lessons from the previous scenarios:
Excess water.
• All the water which generates in
one river basin cannot be stored
with any number of reservoirs,
• We need to leave the water to the
sea which exceed the capacity of
the reservoir/s.
• People will not have any benefit
out of the water which reaches the
sea.
Less water.
• Many reservoirs will remain empty
waiting for long time for the rain to
occur in its catchment area.
• Many reservoirs wait for the release
of water stored at another reservoir
even if the water which is present in
the reservoir is insufficient to
provide irrigation to the lands
depending on that reservoir.

Rain and Reservoirs:
Lessons from the previous scenarios:
Process of raining.
• Water will not come and
fill the reservoir in a
fraction of seconds; rain is
not going to happen like a
flash.
• The raining is the process
it takes its own time, and
thus the flow of water in
its path.
Storage problems.
• Whatever number of reservoir system
we have today with their maximum
capacity is not sufficient for present
population.
• Disputes are present and the
tribunals to keep these ‘disputes for
decades’ exists because of demand
more than the availability of water in
one river basin.

Uses of RCS for ILR as compared to the
other methods of ILR.
Sufficient in volume (TMC), thus Say no to ‘disputes’.23
Simple in creation,
Surface in situation (so that, it is available for use all along
the course),
Safe, even if it breaks down (Imagine the difference
between breaking the tank on one side and the pipe on the
other side),
Secure even in the absence of monitoring,
Synergistic to the present irrigation system,
Saves money in creation and maintainace still irrigates
‘larger Surface’.
Sustainable in long run in the Service of irrigating the land,

giving
justice to
both. 24
RCS will act like a
‘bridge’
in a ‘reticular fashion’
between flood
and drought
prone area

Uses of RCS for ILR
as compared to the other methods of ILR.
• It is possible to maintain the optimum level of water in
most of the reservoirs in all the seasons.
• FPC1CL500 will supply all the dams and the areas which
are below the level of 500mts AMSL (except in the states
of Jammu and Kashmir, North eastern states), the
principle feeders will be the Ganga and the Yamuna.

Uses of RCS for ILR
• FPC2CL900 will supply all the dams and the
areas which are below the level of 900mts AMSL
in south Deccan platue especially the southern
districts of Karnataka, western districts of
Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu and the principle
feeders will be the River Kaveri.

Uses of RCS for ILR
• Ganga upper canal and Yamuna Upper canal will
supply all the dams and the areas which are below
the level of 800mts AMSL in north Indian states
like Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi,
northern district of Uttarpradesh, Bihar which are
north to the course of Ganga and Yamuna will get
the water from the RCS and the principle feeders
will be the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers.

Topic series: 320
River elevator: It is the artificial structure created across the flow of
the river to elevate the top flowing level of the river, to make the river
to flow down / at the same level, higher than the original level in the
course we require.
91
Some terminologies we use in this system:

Topic series: 320
River elevator: This is constructed across the river.
92

Topic series: 320
Canal elevator: To maintain the needed top water level in the canal
at places where we do not get the required earths height.
93

Topic series: 320
Canal elevator: This is constructed along the course of
canal on one side. It looks like a ‘node’ from the top.
94

Topic series: 320
Direct canal connectors: These are the canal created by digging
little deep to avoid circumscribing an elevated area and thus saving
large length of the unnecessary canal.
95

Topic series: 320
U tube: This is a closed canal system in the shape of U with water
receiving end at a higher level than the water discharging end thus
the water is going to flow from one end of the U tube to another
end by Gravity.
It is also possible to create the U tube with both the ends at the
same level expecting bi directional flow.
96

Topic series: 320
Bi dam: (two dam) the wall like parallel structures constructed
along the course of the canal at places where we do not get the
required earths height. The parallel walls will be constructed on
either the sides of the future water flowing path.
97

Topic series: 320
Bi dam - FPC1 start to Gambhir500-D1-431.

Topic series: 320
Y Bi dam: Bi dam with the diversion path in the shape of Y.
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Topic series: 322
Topic 5: Modular explanation for the principle of RCS.
Rivers (Blue line) flow from the higher level to the lower level (Sea)
through the shortest pathway. We can interconnect these pathways
by creating the artificial canals which are declining in the long pathway
from the higher couture to the lower couture going towards the next
river (Primary canal in red lines).
Picture: RCS with PC, SC, TC, QC.
128

Topic series: 322
Picture: The same principle which are explained in the previous
modules will hold good even for the canals which are created in the
same couture, where the water will be distributed all along the canal
by rise in the level of water as the water fills in to the Primary channel,
instead of flow towards one side.
129

Topic series: 322
If we want to store the water, when there is a need, we can
utilize the water of the RCS for filling the natural/ artificial
reservoirs (blue and red dotted area respectively), dams,
bounding and others.
Picture: We can store the water by utilizing the water of the RCS for
filling the natural/ artificial reservoirs.
131

•‘HIMALAYA’ TO ‘ARAVALLI – VINDYA’ SHIFT OF WATER 950 – 500.
155

•GANGA RIVER ELEVATOR 950:
157

5. GANGA UPPER CANAL 950 – 930:
158

6. GANGA U TUBE 930 – 870:
159

7. YAMUNA UPPER CANALL 870 – 830 – 800:
160

9. FLAT PRIMARY CANAL 1 – 500:
162

10. FLAT PRIMARY CANAL 2 – 900.
163

11. FLAT PRIMARY CHANNEL 4 RIVER POINTS WITH FPC 1 & 2:
164

Uses of Reticular canal system
for ILR
What decreases?
• Drought.
• Flood.
• Poverty.
• Diseases related to
underground water
(Poor chemical quality)
• Diseases related to
surface water (Poor
microbiological quality.
• Incidence of diseases.
• Work absenteeism.
• Hospitalization.
• Expenditure.
What increases?
• Water for domestic use.
• Water for agriculture.
• Water for Industry.
• Raining.
• Underground water level.
• Electricity generation.
• Agriculture production.
• Better livelihood.
• National progress.
• Personnel economy.
• Family economy.
• National economy.
• Nutrition.
• Health.
• Productivity.

Effects Drought and Poverty on:
Nation
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Poor
Rich
Globe /Environment

Effects of drought and poverty on Poor:
More number of poor - Nation becomes poor
What becomes less?
• Nutritional intake.
• Build.
• Health.
• Life span.
• Working capability.
• Quality of life.
• Competitiveness.
What becomes more?
• Diseases.
• Diseases reservoirs.
• Malnutrition.
• Burden on Government and
charitable hospital.
• Expectation from the
government for the
support.
• Poverty transmission to the
next generation.

Effects of drought and poverty on Rich:
What becomes less?
• Customers.
• Quality.
• Durability.
• Services.
• Rich becoming richer.
What becomes more?
• Quarrel while paying bills.
• Cheaper items.
• Gap between the rich and
poor.
• Terrorism and naxalism.
• Crime.
• Theft.

Effects of drought and poverty on the Nation:
What becomes less?
• Taxation.
• Public infrastructure.
• Salary and benefits.
• GDP.
• Budget.
• Life expectancy.
• Cheerfulness of the people.
• Prosperity.
• Happyness.
What becomes more?
• Corruption
• Crime.
• Hospitals.
• Old age homes.
• Police station and Courts.
• Mortality.

Effects of drought and poverty on Globe /Environment.
It is very much essential to eradicate poverty to save
our planet.
Cheaper products - increased waste generation.
Low cost transportation vehicle - More emission.
 Free / cheap / charitable hospitals - more demand than the supply -
people to become symptomatically better but may make them chronic
carrier or a morbid person with the brand of ‘no disease’.
Poor quality school -Live away from the school leads to ‘late to start
in education - less gain of knowledge and more dependency.

 Unhygienic atmosphere – e.g. poor sanitary facility, open air defecation,
improper waste disposal - surface water contamination.
 Over crowded house - communicable diseases.
 less knowledge – more diseases more import of essentials materials /
equipments and medicines in large quantity for higher price - unaffordable for
the common person.
 Sell their products in an unhygienic way - food born diseases.
 Spry the insecticides any number of times to save their crop, thus makes the
food poisonous, this also leads to the land pollution.

Eradicating Poverty is the need to save the earth for
our younger generation;
Otherwise we will land up in grave problems related to
environmental issues like
deforestation, desertification, global warming, diseases
related to poor chemical and microbiological quality of the
water, poor air quality, harmful rays entering the
atmosphere due to high emission rate and so on.

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