allahabad with the report of union ministry of water resources revealing that the karchana block of the district comes under critical category while six other blocks bahadurpur dhanupur kaurihar pratappur saidabad and urwa come under semicritical category as far as level of groundwater table is concerned officials of the department and district administration are walking an extra mile to spread awareness among residents of these areas pointedly 76 out of 820 development blocks of the state have been placed under overexploited category by the ministry of water resources in its report besides the ministry of water resources had also placed 32 blocks in critical 107 in semicritical and rest 605 blocks under normal category in a fresh attempt to promote water conservation and maintain water resources in rural and urban sectors officials of the groundwater department have come with water saving tips for citizens according to officials if a person bathes with bucket and mug instead of shower then he or she can save at least 2030 litres water everyday similarly if you wash your hands using a mug instead of running water from tap you can also save at least 10 litres of water officials further added that there are many useful tips like flow of water from tap should be slow and leaking taps should be immediately rectified besides if you want to wash your cash or vehicle you should always use bucket water instead of continuous running water pipe officials advised women to use the tap only when they were washing utensils and everyone should maintain the speed limit of tap while brushing and shaving similarly there should be valves attached to water tanks in all circumstances as it could check the wastage of water and overflow to a great extent if you have stored water in your kitchen then use it first instead of getting fresh water every time for home works in the same regard farmers are being advised to use drip irrigation methods for gardening and sprinkler method for irrigation of fields executive engineer groundwater department hb samvedi said private institutions like hospitals educational institutions hotels and other industries should install roof top rainwater harvesting system for water conservation used water can be utilised for gardening and toilets he added that if you are washing clothes in buckets you can save at least 45 litres of water and if you have enough space then you should construct an underground water tank so that rain water could be stored and used samvedi however maintained that the department has been promoting the concept of water recycling among masses and people should save water everyday in their routine work more efforts are underway to store rain water in ponds in rural pockets of the district efforts are also underway to store the used water of various villages and blocks this would help in checking depletion of water level district development officer ddo r c pandey told toi we have been making constant efforts to apprise