Scarcity and the hopes- Can the Government of the day rise up to the occasion?
Initiative and the origin: India discussed it in detail, but to no avail — It was from 1952 when the tribunal which was formed under the guidance of Pandit Jawaharlal. Pandit Nehru had discussed this as a very critical subject with a note that it is imperative to think on the lines of supply and the distribution and the management of water It was also decided then to make the reservoirs at various places to store the water and distribute it accordingly A national water management body was formed and some of the dams were created then. However the entire blueprint which was then prepared could not be given the shape that’s out ought to be The result is now in 2019 we are facing an acute shortage of water and if this is not taken care in the next three years we would be a nation which will die for the reason of the scarcity of water This article will again attract the International attention and will make an interesting read.
Under therein of Pandit Nehru a Water Tribunal Board was formed It might be even now raining but nothing of that sort in terms of the action has been really witnessed by anybody in the last seventy years of Independence where one could feel and say that – YES, India has no problem with anything that relates to water, either needed for drinking or for cleansing or for anything which relates to agriculture and farming
World Bank Report 1954: India simply ignored that report
After the independence looking into the huge population that India had, it was a question to all and sundry that “ how to control and manage this population “ The question was from where to pool in the money and start the enterprises, especially the Government enterprises so that jobs could be entrusted to the ones who are in need of the same and the Government also could earn their revenue to fill in the coffers to run and manage this country
It was decided that loans may be taken from the world financial lending institutions and the ones that India approached was the WORLD BANK, the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND and the UNO.
A team of dedicated and brilliant personnel came here to study all about India and her infrastructure to lay these public enterprises that Mr. Nehru wanted to lay it here This team visited much a part of the country and gave its report about where and why to lay those public enterprises and why made a bold statement that India, in order to sustain its enterprises,
This is how the dams and it’s construction came into being The ones like the Bhakra Nangal, the Hirakud are the example of the same However the problem still was that the villages and the far remote places did not have the benefit of enjoying the water either for drinking or cleaning This problem surfaced from 1950 till the dates and as more and more of the days are passing by we find that the rivers have shrieked, the rivulets have totally gone out of the flow the Himalaya too has started giving away and except some few big names whose water are so dirty and so unhygienic that India is bereft of any water resources now and if this state of the matter continues for a steady and an infinite time then the days are not far away when there would be a civil unrest in this country for the need of water
Water Renewable and a finite resource & the danger of it’s being lost:-
Water, as a matter of fact, is a renewable but a very finite resource It depends upon the factor of hydrology, its cycle, and the stages that the water passes from the earth via the atmosphere and the way it rises up and above the atmosphere and again comes back to the earth This is the cycle that it goes through The factors like the dense forest, the vegetation, the soil engineering to cite as an example are the ones which continuously keeps the reservoir of the water at the crust of the earth and on the surface intact. However, with population growth and ever-increasing demand for the same amount of water, pressures are mounting
Here I would like to say that if we do not keep control on the environment by checking the minimum level of pollution, and if we keep on trampling with the resources that generate and control the reserves of water we will cause irremediable damage to our own health and that of the planet on which all life depends We will have to change our modes as well as the line of thinking and here it is every individual as well as the Government too will have to think it big and think likewise Else the days of being starved before kneeling to death is not far off The future is at stake, and we must act now to increase awareness of the importance of sustainable freshwater use, management and protection.
There is a major freshwater crisis that has unfolded and that has hit the nation on its head A little bit of patience to ward it off is good but the delay definitely will cause deaths and it would be the death knell of this country The crisis is the lack of access to safe water supply to millions of people as a result of inadequate water management and environmental degradation This is in every sense killing the economic as well as the sociological standings and is breaking it’s backbone every day.This is a crisis which we can call it as the water crises and it is evident in perhaps every nook and the corner of this nation. The scales of it are measurable but it appears to be not because the crises loom in every day to make the matter worst Many freshwater eco-systems are degrading. The freshwater crisis is not the result of natural factors but has been caused by human actions
2003: A worldwide “ cry “ for water reserve and it’s controlled by the experts and the management
It was the year 2003 That was the year that was acknowledged as the International Year of Freshwater by the United General assembly.The U G A passed a resolution to that effect on the study and the need on an urgent basis to restore and reserve the water It was and it is on this lines that the world at large started thinking about how best we can utilize, manage and conserve the water resources around us. And here too our studies would revolve around the same No matter what we are, what we would like to do the fact is we depend on the water and that is it
Water Crisis At India & The Events Responsible For The Same
The water crisis at India started unfolding since the Vajpayee Government took it in 1996 The lack of the fresh and clean water supply to almost all the citizen residing at India because of the result of the inadequate water distribution system and environmental degradation gave a big blow to the people They were deprived of one of the most basic necessities of the life This crisis is slowly undermining the economic and social prosperity of the country crises of the fresh water and it’s scanty resources in terms of its availability is seen around and felt in most of the part of the country the scale varies and the intensity is very different in almost all the nooks and the corners of the country The question is why is this happening The answer is the freshwater crisis is not the result of natural factors but has been caused by human actions
Ecology pollution warmth lack of infrastructure: Government apathetic attitude responsible
The situation has got worsened because of the following factor:-
a. Hot summer
The intensity and the pitch of the heat during the summer season has completely played upon the flow of the water at the rivulets and in certain cases on the rivers The river beds and the rivers have dried up There are many a river and the rivulets which are existing but without a single drop of water to it This is because of the change in the temperature of the environment
b. The Shrinkage Of The Himalayan Glacier
The glacier of the Himalayas are shrinking This should sent a strong signal to both India and Nepal Both the country draw the maximum of the river water from the Himalayas Nepal draws it’s water from the River Bagmati and India through the River Ganges and bot these rivers originate from the GANGOTRI that emancipates from the Himalayas It is imperative that the Government of both the countries immediately draws out a plan for reserving the water from the Bagmati at the Indo-Nepal border by constructing jointly a large dam over there The distribution of the water could easily solve a lot of problems for both Nepal and India and if a Hydro- Electricity generating plant is also made over there as a joint venture between the two nation a lot of the villages at Nepal and a thumbs of them at India on the Indo-Nepal border would feel that at least the GOD has blessed them as both Bagmati and Ganges are the river God for those and these two countries
c. Floods, Droughts Climatic Changes
Over the period of time there have been in numerous calamity and the worst to happen were the droughts, the floods and the continuous change of the climate that has been caused by the overall uncertain behaviour of the ecological disturbing factors This completely damaged the balance of the ecology and the environment It is the developing countries which would be crushed under the wheels of environmental disaster which would off-balance the ecological factor and immediately worldwide the respective Governments should take a stock of the same and sit to neutralise the situation before it is too late
Sadly, the worst impacts of climate change would be suffered by the developing countries, partly because of their poverty and lack of physical infrastructure to counter the damage of cyclones, storm surges and other extreme events
d. Scantitious resources of water under the ground Level
It is a well-known fact that the groundwater, it’s crust, it’s quantum has completely shrunk and it is even far too vicious to think about what does the future hold when there would be no water at all under the crust of the earth
The question is why did it happen The answer is because of the deforestation, because of the spiraling shy touching buildings and because of the fact that the vegetations have all dried and has evaporated to the HELL for good These are all man-made and not nature made We have grown in like anything in terms of population and for our dwelling we have deforested everything, destroying all the vegetations and the sources of the water in process This is what we are getting back from the nature as we have destroyed all the natural faces of the nature
Groundwater is facing increasing pressure from growing populations, increasing urbanization and industrialization, and increasing demand for food security, all which require ever increasing supplies of safe, clean, water. There are two major consequences of these increasing water needs, including (i) excess water withdrawal at rates that exceed the ability of nature to replenish the supplies, to the extent that it can eventually become unfeasible, both economically and technically, to use the groundwater as a stable water supply and (ii) water quality degradation resulting from pollutants generated from a myriad of point and non-point source.
Having discussed the man-made disaster and the crises that would emerge out of the same where we would languish for water let us discuss the Governmental apathy and the points where the Government of the day has to rise from the sleep to completely bottle the adversity that could arise out of the water shortage in the future I start the roles that the Government of the day has to make to equalise the crises that would emerge in the near future on the following points:-
Population: If Not Controlled We Had It
If population growth is not controlled and if per capita consumption of water resources continues to rise at the current rate, human beings could be using over 90 per cent of all available fresh water within another 10 years, leaving just 10 per cent for all other living beings.
Agriculture & Farming:
Agriculture and farming require water However it also leaves so many a scares and the scars that the shortage of water arises from its operation particularly related to the intensive use of nitrogen-rich fertilizers and of pesticides.
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