Muttra. Supplementary notes and statistics of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

It provided by means of regulator and sluices at either end of the horse-shoe depression for the regular submersion of the area during the monsoon and the gradual letting out of the water as the rabi season approached. [...] Complaints of flooding were made in 1887 and the Goverment at the instance of the zamindars (chiefly of the Bulandshahr and Aligarh districts) straightened the bends of the river's course and lowered the bed by a few feet. [...] In the report on the census of 1911 it is suggested that the prevlence of malarial fever in the district is partly due to the saturtion of the soil consequent on the raising of the water level by the extension of the irrigation system. [...] The numerous droughts which have the district in the last decade or so and the shortness 0 the water-supply in the canals has had the effect of concentrating attention on the development of the well-irrigation. [...] Some further correspondence passed between the Board the Director of Land Records and the district authorities on the subject of the correction of the records.