Quandaries confronted by the Villagers ascribed to the proscribed settlements in the neighborhood of water bodies: with reference to a Divisional survey of Irakkamam

Abstract

It is not abstruse that water is a primordial and rudimentary element for the subsistence outright on the planet. Ergo, both the natural and the artificial water bodies are employed for acclimatized routine activities. Furthermore, the Villu Kulam reservoir in Irakkamam is discerned to be radical apropos to the livelihoods. Quite essentially, during the course of the Sinhala reign, the territory accentuated such actions in view of the Muslims within the topographical lacuna of Irakkamam. The reservoir stretching across about three hundred acres irrigates paddy lands of Nintavur and Sammanthuari, The Lake feeds Homo sapiens more than about three hundred, by means of fishing and otherwise withal. It is well not oblivious that there have been proscribed settlements in the neighborhood of the reservoir en route to being susceptible to vulnerabilities of the body of the water as plus as the surrounding, whose notion has been of indignation under this research. Moreover, the ill corollaries of the residents in the vicinity of the lake and the momentousness of water plus illegitimate settlements are to be anatomized in this research. This research is ascribed from both the qualitative and quantitative data. Primary qualitative data was amassed through qualitative interviews and questionnaires in the midst of focus group discussions. A hundred questionnaires were stocked arising out of snowball sampling. The secondary sources were videlicet books, magazines, reports, and literature from the Internet. The denouements of the indignation are engendered by virtue of diagrams and charts. In effect, the human crowd around the reservoir distress maelstrom attributed to the impetus of contra banded community encircling the reservoir. Consequently, the interplay between humanity and nature has been excruciating. Hence, it is pivotal to conserve the bodies of water. The deliberation of the entities of water is to be of the essence at all costs, which is emphatically the accomplishment of this indignation.