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How India Poured Billions of Liters of Water Across 650 Kilometers of Desert

How India Poured Billions of Liters of Water Across 650 Kilometers of Desert Stand on the Thar and you feel the constraint right away. Heat, distance, and thin groundwater leave almost no margin for error. In this landscape, water decides what survives. Zoom out and the imbalance is obvious. Strong river flow sits far from the driest districts of western Rajasthan. India’s answer was one of the biggest hydraulic bets in the region, redirect flow, hold it inside a manmade corridor, and keep it stable across a desert stretch of roughly 650 kilometers. At the intake side, the Indira Gandhi Feeder Canal was designed for 18,500 cusecs. A cusec means one cubic foot per second. At that design rate, the feeder can carry about 45.26 billion liters in a single day when supply and operating conditions align. That opening number creates the real question for this story. Moving the water once is hard. Keeping that volume controlled, day after day, through sand, heat, sediment, and aging structures is the real engineering fight.