making of the Mataka

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Channel: Rakesh Sharma Bikaner · 2014 · News & Politics

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With the onset of summer  The potter of  Ganga shahar Bikaner  fully turned into for making of the Mataka and surahi for a  chilled drinking water storage in upcoming hot weather and scorching sunny days. 
Matka is the Hindi language  word used for an earthen pot. It is used all over India, as a home as "water storage cooler". The cooling process works through evaporative cooling. Water seeps from mini-pores in the pot and evaporates, thus making the water inside cooler than the outside temperature.

that every household especially ones belonging to the older generation prefer mutka or surai water to ice chilled refrigerated water.

these potters, who eke out a living by quenching our summer thirst, life turned to pot making. During summers our pots are in great demand in entire Bikaner Rajasthan,

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