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‘India’s freshwater stocks in danger’
News:
- According to a study published in the journal Nature,India’s fresh water stocks are in danger.
Important facts:
- The study was conducted using an array of NASA earth observation satellites.
- NASA tracked the global hydrological changes.
- The study, has observed the following:
- wetter parts of the earth’s were getting wetter and dry areas getting drier due to a variety of factors including human water use, climate change and natural cycles.
- The areas in northern and eastern India, West Asia, California and Australia are among the hotspots where overuse of water resources has caused a serious decline in the availability of freshwater.
- The northern India groundwater extraction for irrigation of wheat and rice crops has led to depletion of water, despite rainfall being normal throughout the period.
- NASA scientist has reported the major hydrological change and also pointed out the Water loss in some regions like the melting ice sheets and alpine glaciers is clearly effects of warming climate.
