Water problems in India.
Billions of people are in lack of drinking fresh clean water all around the
world. There are many reasons for this problem that everyone around
the world are facing. Two-third of the world’s population is currently
facing water shortage, there are even problems having water for
agricultural and industrial developments. But we as a country have
stopped caring about our main and natural resource we get from mother
nature and started throwing junk and harmful chemicals into lakes, rivers
and oceans. And having water make up 70% of our Earth’s surface we
can’t just say ‘it goes on’ cause once we start we won’t stop polluting the
water bodies. There are already countries that have ran out of clean
water like Libya, Western Sahara, Yemen etc. Water shortages may be
caused by climate change, floods, increased population and increased
human demand and overuse of water. Children become most affected
because they are usually more vulnerable to diseases from dirty water.
One of the most important recent task of the UN is the general assembly
of the human rights to water and sanitation.
Bengaluru being one of a fast-developing city in India, the population just
increases. This results in; More People + More Money= More Water
Demand. It’s a simple problem, the more the population increases and
income growth so does water demand. Most people waste water thinking
that there’s anyways going to be water so they don’t really try consuming
it and just use it for useless stuff like when we have holidays such as
Holi, people use excess amount of water just for throwing it on people.
People get really ignorant when to comes to these kinds of things and
take it as a joke. Even with big industries setting up their own companies
in Bengaluru like when Bangalore started advertising itself as a tech hub
in the late 1990s and pulling in top firms like Microsoft, IBM, Dell and
google; all you can see are tall buildings anywhere u look. Bangalore
used to have breathtaking lakes and now it’s just concrete around us.
While it still has opened up many job opportunities in the city, many don’t
have piped water instead rely on an army of privately-run tankers that
suck water from wells inside and outside the city and deliver it to homes.
While some get ground water but their own convenience like drinking
water, bathing, laundry and other daily needs.
There is no inflow of water in Mangalore, Mangalore being near the
ocean it itself doesn’t have fresh water. With nearly 50 per cent grappling
with drought-like conditions, the situation has been particularly this year
in both Western and Southern states that received below average
rainfall. And now with water flooding’s going on in Karnataka due to
heavy rainfall. To this happening, a lot of people were affected and
thousands of people were evacuated to safer and relief camps. A total of
61 people also killed sue to these floods and seven lakhs have been
displaced. Cities like Chennai are even going through a huge water
crisis, it’s been hitting headlines like never before and this has made a
lot of huge cities fear. Chennai has been a water deficient city. While
inappropriate planning of land use and lack of measures for the
conservation and management of water resources can be blamed for the
current situation, changes in rainfall pattern also had its share of
impacts. From extreme rainfall events to no rain for 190 days, so this is
the reason Chennai has often swung between floods and drought.
Kerala is also one of the biggest reasons for the scarcity in India
receiving 80% less rainfall than normal after the floods. When all of 14 of
Kerala’s districts last faced a water crisis in 2016, the government
declared the state drought-hit. They are even facing acute drinking water
shortage, just eight months after the state witnessed the worst floods in a
century last August. To address the crisis, the Kerala Water Authority
has deployed special terms to monitor the situation and the government
has sanctioned Rs5 lakh to all gram panchayats for distribution of water.
A major water crisis is looming large over Mumbai too- the business,
banking and financial capital of India. With storage levels in dams
dipping because of insufficient rainfall.
To keep our waters fresh and clean we have first start with recycling
used things, instead of dropping cigarette buds after u smoke have a
huge impact on the nature when people drop them at the beach or
riverside area. The earth recycler everything from material from dead
plants to animals to feed new plant life. We should recycle to the max we
can because mother nature can do it so can we. Plastic plays a huge
role in this problem, the more we keep dumping in lakes and rivers the
less of change we have in having water to consume. Because of this
even the animals undersea have difficulty to even live for a day. For a
newborn fish, to eat is to live another day; if their first meal is plastic,
they’re not consuming the calories they need to sustain them until the
second. We can even start by helping out local organizations in
cleanups. Never pour chemicals down sinks or toilets.
We can’t stand to dirty and damage our drinking water sources. Yet, this
is precisely what we’re doing-regularly without knowing it. We are
comforting dirtier, toxic water and more danger of water scarcity and
shortage. This emergency is genuine, its occurring now and it’s getting
worse than what we expect. It even gets harder for farmers to grow if
groundwater stops coming in. Groundwater plays an important part of
India’s economy, due to not having water even the economy of India
drops profusely. Helping out the nation in even the smallest thing will
help mother nature to not die rather we can contribute by doing our parts
and keeping our environment clean because in the end everything is
linked to everything.