Administration Report on Irrigation Works in the Bombay Presidency 1912-13

It is worth mention on the other hand that the increased storage in the Rewari and the Chikhli Canals and the 1Vlayni Tank all in the Satara District and the Medleri and the Asundi Tanks in the Dharwar Irrigation District produced an increase in the total area of cultivation as the irrigation in the rabi season more than made up for the decreases in the kharif season. [...] The supply of water in the tank sufficed throughout the year to meet the demands of the mills and the canal. [...] In order to increase the supply at the tail of the Nurwah and to distribute the water more evenly throughout the whole length of the canal the section of the Nurwah channel has been enlarged below the 1 ith mile and submerged sluices have been provided instead of the old open type ones. [...] In all the projects for improvements the reduction of the vents of sluices in the upper reaches is very necessary for the equitable distribution of water and unless this is done there is no hope of ameliorating the condition of the zamindars at the tails. [...] The work was put in hand but subsequently the idea of carrying out the project was abandoned at the recommendation of the Commissioner in Sind and the work of constructing the Regulator has been stopped.