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WATER CRISIS

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Jul 14, 2014, 12:00 am IST
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WATER CRISIS

Intro: The need of the hour is to revive traditional wisdom and traditional ways of water management.

It is only in recent times that the human population is witnessing serious droughts, is facing floods and other calamitous water scarcity in the form of vanishing lakes, drying rivers and falling water tables. Definitely, humankind who has to its credit the modern marvels of science and technology, is not only at a loss to understand this calamity but is finding itself helpless in checking, mitigating or reversing it. Let us analyse one by one, the factors, which has led to water crisis that is staring many countries and particularly India in the face.

What we need to do

  1. Educate masses, especially the national and international decision makers. They need to understand that as mentioned in our primeval scriptures, the Vedas — especially Rigveda and Atharvaveda-our ancestor knew right ways of managing natural resources that were in tune with nature.
  2. Stop dumping untreated industrial waste into rivers. 
  3.  Anti pollution laws need to be stringent.
  4.  Rainwater harvesting should be a mandatory practice.
  5. Serious thinking needs to be done for building cities and towns of the future.

1. Urbanisation
Urbanisation, marked by rapid growth and proliferation of cities and dwindling population of villages are an important feature of Industrial revolution that began in Europe. In urban living, consumptive water is drawn from rivers and waste water in the form of sewage is dumped into the rivers. Contaminated waste water – an industrial effluent finds its way into the rivers, pollutes them and impacts the fertility of the landmass contiguous to their banks. The reduced fertility reduces the greenbelt and foliage, and disturbs the ecosystem.
In the present time, water tables have become extremely low due to large scale drawing of underground water through bore wells and hand pumps. Rainwater harvesting of medieval and ancient times with virtually little or no dependence on rivers for human water needs was a water management practice quite in tune with nature. Unfortunately, this is not the case today. By tampering with the natural water cycle systems, we have invited a multitude of problems for ourselves. Even modern scientists acknowledge that more than 30 percent drawing of water from rivers for consumption is ecologically and environmentally disastrous.
2. Hydro power plants , dams/barrages
The proliferation of micro, mini or mega hydro power plants or plain barrages across rivers has thrown up newer set of problems related to environment and ecosystem. It is estimated that Ganga river, originating from the foot of Himalayas, carries with it nearly 360 million tonnes of mineral rich fertile soil to the plains every year. By constructing dams and barrages across the flow of the Ganga, this soil does not reach the plains where it is intended to be taken by nature and, it gets deposited on the upstream walls and concrete embankments of the barrages. In due course, this deposition of mineral rich soil called silt undermines the operation of dams and hydro electric plants too and disturbs the distribution of water in the upstream and downstream regions of the land.
3. Greenhouse effect and melting glaciers
The extremely high dependence on hydrocarbons as a fuel and the consequent loading of the atmospheric air by carbon-di-oxide has created the ‘Greenhouse effect’ marked by global warming and climate change. The percentage of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere has gone up from the normal level of 0.02 percent. And today, serious environmental consequences of global warming are monstrously peeping at us.
Himalayan glaciers are melting rapidly and peaks receding like never before. In India, the Gangotri Glacier retreated 34 m per year between 1970 and 1996, and has averaged a loss of 30 m per year since 2000. For the Indian Himalayas, retreat averaged is 19 m per year for 17 glaciers. In Sikkim, 26 glaciers are retreating at an average rate of 13.02 m per year from 1976 to 2005. 51 glaciers in the main Himalayan Range, Nepal and Sikkim are retreating, at an average rate of 23 metres per year.

-Atul Sehgal (The writer is a senior professional in Infrastructural Consultancy and can be contacted at [email protected])

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