Haryana sweet water pools fire up Saraswati revival
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11/05/2015
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Times Of India (New Delhi)
ONGC, ASI Join The Hunt
A dozen-odd pools of sweet water emerging on a dry riverbed in a village in Haryana have got India's top scientists excited about the possibility of taking the Saraswati river out of the realm of myth and make it a reality .
While ONGC will soon start drilling in six different locations in the state, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has collected samples of the water from Mugalwali village.
Of the six locations ONGC identified, three are in Yamunanagar and one each in Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Fatehabad. This is the first time that they have identified drilling locations in Haryana. They had found a massive water source in Ra jasthan's Jaisalmer district in a similar exercise in 2006.
“We found pebbles which are generally transported by flowing water of rivers,“ says superintending archaeologist, ASI's Chandigarh circle, G N Srivastava.