Water supplies

The messure necessary to control the movement of water and conserve the supplies of it can also serve subsidary purposes of value to the life of the country side.By far the cheapest form of internal transport in a country is by boats and barges through canals and rivers .We hear much about tprogrammes or rails and road construction .but far too little about the development of internal water ways in India.Then,again the harnessing of water supplies useually also make a tremendous difference .In particular it wouls enable underground water to be tapped to greater extant then at present and thus help to overcome the difficults arising from irregularity or inadequancy of other sources of suppky.In one sense,water is the commonest of liquids in another sense,it is the most uncommon of liquids with amazing properties which are responsible for its unique power of maintaining animal and plant life.The investigation of the nature and properties of water is therefore of the highest scientific intrest and is far from an exhausted field of research.