UREDA Initiatives for Community-Based Hydro Power Projects
History of watermills in Uttarakhand
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WROTE V.A. STOWELL, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF GARHWAL IN 1953", TURN A LARGE NUMBER
OF WATERMILLS (GHARAT OR GHAT) BY WHICH MOST OF THE GRAIN IN GROUND... IN A
PARTICULARLY FAVORABLE STREAM WITH A STEEP COURSE, A CHAIN OF SIX OR EIGHT MILLS MAY
SOMETIMES BE MET WITH IN THE SPACE OF A QUARTER OF A MILE OR SO, THE WATER BEING
CARRIED ON IN A CONTINUING CHANNEL (GUL) FROM ONE MILL TO THE NEXT. MILLS ARE OFTEN
PERMANENT, SOMETIMES STANDING AMONG IRRIGATED FIELDS AND WORKED BY THE FALL OF THE
IRRIGATION CHANNEL; OFTEN, HOWEVER, THEY STAND AMONG THE GAVEL AND BOULDER BEDS OF
THE LARGISH STREAM-BED AND WASHED AWAY ANNUALLY IN THE RAINS AND RE-ERECTED IN THE
WINTER; OTHERS ON SMALL STREAMS LETS ONLY GET ENOUGH WATER TO WORK IN THE RAINS".
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