ITANAGAR, Dec 1: A team of officers from WRD Western Zone l visited the Jote Lake which is a by-product of water conservation initiatives taken up by the Water Resource Department, to gather a view of its current status. 
The team was led by Chief Engineer Likar Angu accompanied by IPR Director Obang Tayeng and others. Chief Engineer made a startling revelation that while in the past only mouse-tail like free flowing water and small underground water reserves were found in the place, after WR department’s conservation initiatives through construction of retaining walls in downside of the lake, the picture is much improved. Today it’s a big lake along with attached irrigation channel which drains out excess water to the cultivation fields, Chief Engineer said, adding that such schemes are also being contemplated in all districts of the state wherever feasible. The hardworking and hospitable owner of the lake said that hunting of animals and birds have been stopped to maintain ecological balance and efforts are on to plant more trees around it to maintain the water source. It is also the home to around 7000 rich varieties of fish, he added.
The lake stretches over a vast land requiring a day-long ferrying to know its full dimension and is a glaring example of successful conservation of underground and free flowing water, also giving way to multiple benefits like aquatic sustenance, irrigation, environment stability and tourism. DIPRO

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