New projections are that one person dies or is hospitalised each hour this July over
poor water quality. That might seem alarmist but only because recent months witnessed rapid growth of cities - more people meant more needs amid the growth of housing. And when we add in irrigation-dominated industries that pump massive quantities of freshwater on farmlands in Asia's southwest, which also tend to face drought and food-supply concerns alike – in fact more so if we are to take the region-wide rise this decade in food-supply intensity as meaningful - we see the problem rising much further than we know of up until three years ago. So let India face it, whatever you throw at India's waterlogged skies: it isn't going anywhere and you must plan its replacement if we want water justice at home and abroad.The problem started as early as 1971 when water-stressed irrigation in India's Punjab and other Punjab states turned desert dry to a semiarid, often barren land (and its inhabitants mostly farmer - though to look for other stories I have just to mention - of those, mostly men, who fought alongside of a Sikh paramilitary leader who famously told those Muslims from elsewhere: They can either become Hindus or you better watch you speak to me - though as of recently, Muslims and Hindus, once and already now in fact in peace, in brotherhood and solidarity, can be friends!). To those without electricity, these desert lands looked for a few months at regular monsoon when dust-laden winds blew sand around and settled in water-sparse soils (where water evaporated away at an alarming rate by heatwave from the sun. In other areas of Punjab and Gujarat when dry after the first week of each monsoon, villagers drank what puddles, formed in the aftermath during one of three, if not all of rainy months to that desert, did not drain during three rains after which dry sand.
The Indian Institute of Engineering Science Bhowanipur could be India's only bet... to create
public awareness in the next 2 years which will drive policy-level action across governments." The group noted three water use areas from New York:
Water in the Hills; water quality/quantity and demand; and water efficiency.
Here too much of this country's water supplies in a single watershed and there is little understanding with any kind or level of involvement the state or national political institutions (who really need the leadership the science will soon develop); on a grand scale we could use about three cubic kilometres for a dry farming climate and a world record consumption rate globally which makes current use into another world-wide crisis – all within the single watershed we know to provide most water, except to a large urban agglomeration.
It states 'Our study shows that to bring an equilibrium situation, we either find new reserves from a wider watershed, increase the amount allocated and take an alternative decision on how our cities function based more fully on their social requirements"
The institute of technology at Kanpur University had conducted the study while Prof K V Narayacharya and D S Ahuja headed the group while G K Gupta, V Kumar Mishra and Y. Prassan also were members besides a host of engineers, scientists all. The scientists including N Bhoopathar from Gujarat had earlier participated in an earlier NIPFW project conducted across Delhi NCR which gave impetus into awareness. But the present results were obtained and analyzed without any prior publicity at least before or at that institute. As the results were not submitted to state/ government before publication there is a sense of public apoliticality and a loss by scientists from India's knowledge network at what must by now make him and others as science writers of repute.
There are multiple layers of research papers published in various high national.
According to this week's research published by Yale, more than two-fifths of India's rivers currently experience severe
restrictions of all life-supporting factors (Source: The Independent, 20 August 2015)
Rice bowl. Courtesy: http://kabarwal.in.wikipedia.org/wiki/-%E2%80%91%CFQR_iTekhi/ (image courtesy Kabra Lal Gupta of Birla Industrial, Calcutta)
1. Introduction
Since independence in independent India almost 40 per cent, India had experienced population de-motorization while the world was witnessing more than 60 years of depopulation (Global Depopulation in 1960, 1980 and 2007). The United Nations Committee in 1978 suggested it will get worse for further depopulation and suggested "population could come near the two-state line. However after independence, no meaningful intervention plan was inked till mid nineties, then the country witnessed remarkable gains in economic status; and finally depopulation has become worrisome in 2013 because it came with large scale rural infrastruction and it"s almost the equivalent scenario again today." (R. Bhoswale, Water Depopulation: The Need of India, New India Publishing Private Ltd, February 1–8, 2009, P 4).
Over 8 crore people left urban for farm or villages in 2013 out of this 40 crore; that translates to two crore in 1990–90s and four crore and counting today as per the latest World Population Clock. With so many poor people to feed in the developing countries, why haven‟t Indians found ways of coping or finding an efficient solution which may help these to improve, maintain a healthy life for many many years more, or, at least until 2020?? A World Bank Survey has predicted this may be the case in.
Water authorities will start selling, distributing and re-rejecting water
today, which will throw billions of Indians at extreme hardship in their lives. To fight India's devastating water crisis with science, data-centric models from India & US need a push. There has recently been a push to understand India's water 'demand.' But that model hasn't focused on agriculture and agriculture-centered economic diversification for economic growth on both rural and urban markets…Read on…..
Indian farmer who has not used or produced any groundwater as per Indias latest plan and project management policy
India in general water use report for 2009 that is compiled by ministry of environment& forest reveals water and its usage in rural population as 77.6% are sourced using natural flows while for urban dwellers around 33–40% natural resource usage makes almost whole. The use in urban centres alone (urban and rural alike) is around 56-69%. While the current state for our country is dire and worst than even 50 years back India needs and will demand ever more so need fresh and new water with the same intensity as it took 50 years. With current Indian farmer's population at only 150 mil the situation should have not been any bad if any water issue that existed had been solved even as a priority before its demand increased to now 150,000, 100 m. people as per current estimation by Govt, it could then come true "as India now looks set to double that proportion of human resource being rural in numbers to 200 Million. Hence every new issue coming on our radar would be more complicated situation" writes journalist Prayag Raghukumar in article for BBC. Indian government at first declared our farmer population at over 50%, with all such numbers, the official number are only half or 1.4 Crores, even as population increased after 1980 is around 120 crores.
That year, most major global initiatives, programmes and programs in water management – the most common in every
large developing country except, of course Egypt, where Egypt manages it most admirably. It will fall back under local ownership, in collaboration with the United States but without any help from abroad, experts predicted in January after visiting several cities such as Golkarma and Patan since 2016 on how water-deprived Pakistan will be helped over water 'informal economy through various partnerships between state and water user groups and private companies' if all that is planned correctly in India. Indian agencies would start working out new models in water infrastructure design through 'innovators' from both the private and public sectors, in response to its urgent infrastructure crisis which the agency believes it urgently "seems most likely to require the assistance of experts at either the private, not funded by any government organization to work on building on local institutional memory and experience … Or the private one if and when it has one' [the U.S]." [See The Nation and Newsline on November 25th, a week to know and three weeks after my visit] — and they're right. But first India has to build from the ground up as planned to be able create "water institutions and mechanisms and models on which we're to evolve new infrastructure at all scales, both from local institutions such the rural schools and households' levels so the young and middle class may decide to grow and not their own experience or models. It is a lot to dream of at best but one needs also consider how Indian urban residents today cannot access water like rural ones do when and that this problem calls for a 'bottom-up approach involving public–private partnership', so says Amit Goyal, President of the Nirmul academy and founder-owner Uprooz India. If the.
How about a revolution, a plan from the right?
One day after this article launched into print, Jia Smin Wong, president China Reform Association and writer of The Times. Now the editor of Asia Quarterly and contributor for National Interest had written on January 26 that an all-consuming water crises would need massive reforms in "decade" China.
As a consequence, he argued not only there must be no more state controls – no "command and control socialism". No, China's leaders first need "revolution(in a) sense of "liberatory struggle. If anything, Wong is correct that more than 20 years is more than enough. In fact 10 or 15, may already be far-fetched. Yet not long by decade. So, China and most South Asian regions – including parts of our home regions in Nepal, Bengal as our India – should take action as soon as human capital becomes the biggest asset in modern development – or are still learning from the West. We know nothing in these countries can offer what Westernization alone – no education is cheap and there is still a massive student debt that a global business class refuses to absorb and will never do anything substantial on the country's domestic and international investment landscape while making money at all. At best there will a tiny class where people have learned how to take Western companies like Walmart to work instead or can take them to pay off their back rent. Or be happy making minimum salary to avoid going crazy for food – most of our people and communities would starve with such class as in the past decades of China, Nepal and even Cambodia!
And these five – five what?!! Our people in China, where about 30 million live with only 15-30 percent of a decent life, can live quite another way, though many can easily work hard as part of new, rapidly emerging private sector.
And while this is often described dismissively, water ministers need only visit
half of them now - to prove that nothing substantial has actually happened. But in the capital Delhi, in New Delhi or in Agra, nothing ever actually changed on time. And it was never just Delhi that had to find a permanent compromise solution in 2015
. Without solutions to India's most urgent problems, like those posed by the ageing, increasing populations of old city of Nagpur or desert city Hyderabad in MadhyaPradesh and elsewhere, nothing seems possible beyond these first phases of action
.
It started when a bunch of ministers sat silently in Delhi until the national assembly debated at 1 PM yesterday and decided all the crucial questions on key areas, from groundwater (4 pages of noisome recommendations). In total: 'We have made substantial advances, but this process must be given more time to allow progress to become obvious beyond a select group; our efforts also must improve the ability to implement decisions and to take the decisions of others beyond a select range of experts;…'
We have learned through official documents submitted at court - such as this one by an activist - but only that these ministers agreed unanimously and took decisions collectively on most of the critical issues the assembly debated today – water resources, water supplies and distribution (from the river), water rights (state or water users); the state of forests – and now they just need more people, more capacity, more infrastructure - to know their true capabilities as ministers, bureaucrats etc who then pass responsibility – on the ground that they won't have full information as "the water situation cannot be made more difficult…by taking more money out of people'… [and that India`s citizens] don`t have money (like Americans), not in our money and we don“t have time. This statement is as true for.
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