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    Well diggers make good money every summer in Kerala by sinking shaft wells. Unfortunately these people have no scientific data to support them to put in place measure to prevent well wall caving in on them and leading to live burial and ultimately loss of life. If a modern scientific data base on the shallow lithology were available several scores lives could be saved.

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    Well diggers make good money every summer in Kerala by sinking shaft wells. Unfortunately these people have no scientific data to support them to put in place measure to prevent well wall caving in on them and leading to live burial and ultimately loss of life. If a modern scientific data base on the shallow lithology were available several scores lives could be saved.

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    Well diggers make good money every summer in Kerala by sinking shaft wells. Unfortunately these people have no scientific data to support them to put in place measure to prevent well wall caving in on them and leading to live burial and ultimately loss of life. If a modern scientific data base on the shallow lithology were available several scores lives could be saved.

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    ARE WELL CAVING DEATHS AVOIDABLE?

    thrivikramji@gmail.com

    By about noon today –this year’s Vishu day, April 15, 11- the sad disappearance
    of a well digger into a well due to wall collapse happened in the Moonnam
    Puthen Theruvu, Fort, Thrivandrum. The TV channels brought this incident to our
    living rooms along with the rescue efforts to save a human life caught under the
    debris. Unhesitatingly I will say that this and similar accidents are a shame on us,
    especially in this modern world and our society that undergoes modernizing on a
    fast track.

    The modern science and technology have endowed us with tools and knowledge
    that will become handy in avoiding and preventing such and other ghastly
    incidents costing innocent lives.

    In fact what we need is a D –shallow or say 30 m.-resistivity tomogram of the


    land area of the highland and midland on a cadastral scale using the
    CARTOSAT-II data base. This program can be easily completed over a period of
    say 5 years. Moreover, the lihtologs of currently serving wells (both borewells
    and shaft wells) in the state have to go into a data base accessible to the well
    digger as well as the well owner, in every nook and corner of the state and either
    at the LSG offices/akshaya centers etc. This project can also be implemented
    over a period of say 5 years. The scientific ministries of GOI or the planning
    commission will be prepared to finance these projects.

    Once the shallow subsurface lithological data base is implemented and becomes
    functional in the public domain through a variety of channels the data will be
    come tangible for the public. When almost all the blocks or villages of the state
    have at least a school each, I would imagine that majority of such schools have
    some sort of connectivity to internet. If these schools and colleges in the state as
    well as the village/Krishi office with internet connectivity will be equipped to offer
    this new knowledge on the shallow geological make up to the needy like well
    digger or potential owner of a new well.

    This will be a much needed service especially to the day worker community and
    their families in the state. Such an empowerment will save dozens of lives every
    year and perhaps avoid life long penury of the unfortunate families.
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