INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

208 PREVENTIVE AND
3. Area protected by means of Easter Jumna
Canal, 4.4i
4. " " " "Ganges Canal on
completion, 2-1.0
Total, 54.4i
Anyone who has a personal knowledge of the
extent of country irrigated by the Ganges
Canal, will be surprised to learn that the wells
in the cOITesponding tract of country irrigate
an equally large area. This fact will at once
clearly indicate the importance of this system
of well- irrigation, and point to the necessity
of encouraging its extension. The probability
of a second canal as large as that from
the Ganges being constructed in the Doab, to
protect only one-half of the area of the threatened
districts, will be reverted to.
To be forewarned is to be foreanned j but at
present our only warning is that famines will
recur,-when and where we cannot predict.
Meteorological science as yet can afford us little
or no help; but we may hope that the
day will come when it will be of some assistance.
India presents a field well worthy the
attention of meteorologists, and which is slowly
being worked.