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Reservoir

Reservoir, a reservoir cannot be understood merely to be a means to hold water in a stream. It is only by controlling the following stream in an area such as water can be stored in reservoir. Irrigation work would include land used for such purpose. 'Reservoir' may not necessarily mean only the constructed part of the land but includes the area where the water is held by a dam constructed by the Government, Orient Papers and Industries Ltd. v. Tahsildar, AIR 1998 SC 3330 (3334): (1998) 7 SCC 303. [Orissa Irrigation Act, 1959 (14 of 1959), s. 4(d) and 28]Reservoir, cannot be understood merely to be a means to hold water in a stream. It is only by controlling the flowing stream in an area where water can be stored in reservoir. Irrigation work would include land used for such purpose. Reservoir, may not necessarily mean only the constructed part of the land but includes the area where the water is held by a dam constructed by the Government, Orient Papers and Industries Ltd. v. Tahsildar...


Reservoirs

Reservoirs. As to construction of reservoirs, see (English) Waterworks Clauses Acts, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 17) and 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 93), and the (English) Reservoirs Safety Provisions Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 51). For powers and procedure of local authorities to construct, lease or purchase reservoirs, see (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 116-123, subject to the conditions imposed by the Acts. The (English) Limited Owners Reservoirs and Water Supply Further Facilities Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 31), gives limited owners power to form reservoirs and to charge their estates with the expense. Reservoirs are among the 'improvements' which may be made with capital trust money under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1882; see s. 25 (xiii.); now under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 83, and 3rd Sch., Part I....


Improvement of land

Improvement of land. The (English) Improvement of Land Acts, 1864 and 1899 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 114, and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 46), enumerate a number of 'im-provements' such as the following: (1) Drainage; (2) Irrigation and Warping; (3) Embanking from the sea, etc.; (4) Inclosing, and redivision of fields; (5) Reclamation; (6) Making roads, tramways, railways, and canals; (7) Clearing; (8) Erection and improvement of cottage and farm buildings; (9) Planting for shelter; (10) Construction of mills, etc.; (11) Construction of landing-places; and allowed tenants for life to charge the cost of such improvements upon the fee of a settled estate with the sanction of the In closure Commissioners, after notice to persons in remainder, and certain specifications and surveys;-the sanction of the Commissioners to be given 'if they found (s. 25) that the improvements would effect a permanent increase of the yearly vale of the lands proposed to be improved.' The Acts have been amended by the (English) Ag...


ballpoint

a pen which has a small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper at the tip of a cylandrical and non refillable reservoir of ink short for ballpoint pen...


By wash

The outlet from a dam or reservoir also a cut to divert the flow of water...


Calculus

Any solid concretion formed in any part of the body but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs and in the passages connected with them as biliary calculi urinary calculi etc...


Capaciousness

The quality of being capacious as of a vessel a reservoir a bay the mind etc...


Catchment

A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir...


Chagas disease

a form of trypanosomiasis caused by infection with Trypamosoma cruzi found principally in South America It is transmitted by certain species of reduviid bugs and has natural reservoirs in dogs armadillos rodents and other domestic and wild mammals...


Cistern

An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water beer or other liquids...


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