{"id":52972,"date":"2019-10-10T17:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=52972"},"modified":"2019-10-10T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:06:30","slug":"answered-strategy-for-water-resource-management-require-new-approach-and-not-the-continuation-of-failed-policies-of-the-past-comment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-strategy-for-water-resource-management-require-new-approach-and-not-the-continuation-of-failed-policies-of-the-past-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cStrategy for water resource management require new approach and not the continuation of failed policies of the past.\u201d Comment."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Major issues causing water crisis. Why Water resource management need a new outlook?
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

According to the Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) report released by the Niti Aayog in 2018, 21 major cities (Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and others) are racing to reach zero groundwater levels by 2020, affecting access for 100 million people. Although India has made improvements over the past decades to both the availability and quality of municipal drinking water systems, its large population has stressed planned water resources and rural areas are left out. In addition, rapid growth in India’s urban areas has stretched government solutions, which have been compromised by over-privatisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major Issues leading to water crisis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Freshwater\ndeficit:<\/strong> India\u2019s water needs are dependent\nmainly on monsoon. Environmental changes and increasing population combined\nwith lack of overall long-term availability of water resources is a cause of\nconcern. <\/li>
  2. Unsafe and\nPoor quality: <\/strong>Regardless of\nimprovements to drinking water, many other water sources are contaminated with\nboth bio and chemical pollutants, and over 21% of the country’s diseases are\nwater-related. Furthermore, only 33% of the country has access to traditional\nsanitation. This lead to unavailability of clean and drinking water and\nendanger Indian population health.<\/li>
  3. Groundwater\nstress:<\/strong> Many rural communities in India who\nare situated on the outskirts of urban sprawl also have little choice but to\ndrill wells to access groundwater sources. There is no easy answer for India\nwhich must tap into water sources for food and human sustenance, but India’s\noverall water availability is under enormous stress.<\/li>
  4. Demographic\nneeds:<\/strong> Children in 100 million homes in the\ncountry lack water, and one out of every two children are malnourished.\nEnvironmental justice needs to be restored to India so that families can raise\ntheir children with dignity, and providing water to communities is one such way\nto best ensure that chance.<\/li>
  5. Corruption\nand lack of planning: <\/strong>India’s water\ncrisis is often attributed to lack of government planning, increased corporate\nprivatisation, industrial and human waste and government corruption. In\naddition, water scarcity in India is expected to worsen as the overall\npopulation is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by year 2050. To that end,\nglobal water scarcity is expected to become a leading cause of conflict in the\nfuture.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Water resource management need new approach:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Water\navailability is not only dependent on ecological conditions. Rivers here have\nbeen tamed, controlled, and managed in order to exploit them in the service of\nthe economy, the people and the state. But the control and the exploitation,\n(i.e. the management patterns of these rivers) have created social and economic\ninequalities, sometimes even dramatic ecological consequences. <\/li>
    2. Because of\nthe rising tensions at various scales, government institutions should advocate\na new water management approach in order to better integrate various national,\nregional, local stakeholders, as well as users from the agricultural, industrial,\nand drinking water sectors. <\/li>
    3. The new\napproach must focus on the Integrated Water Resource Management, which is\nclosely linked to the river basin. Water flows according to natural\ncharacteristics and does not respect administrative boundaries, therefore water\nshould be managed in an integrated manner on scientific basis. <\/li>
    4. As as most of\nthe water is displaced or dried up instead of used, rain catchment programs\nmust be framed and put in place. Collected water can be immediately used for\nagriculture, and with improved filtration practices to reduce water-borne\npathogens, also quickly available for human consumption.<\/li>
    5. Instead of\nrelying on quick-fix proposals based on faulty logic, the city and state\nauthorities should focus on addressing what underlies the actual problem.\nReservoir depletion in general and a falling water table in particular. There\nshould be government regulation, to curb the amount of groundwater a household\ncan extract. This water should be metered and priced.<\/li>
    6. Farm ponds\nare constructed near the farming field. The rain water which runs off the\nground are collected by these ponds. These ponds helps agriculture in dry\nlands.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      There is a clear disconnect between water, society and economy. Currently, we are interested in laying large networks, constructing huge storage dams, fetching water from 150 km and above, which involves a huge carbon footprint. We need to promote a decentralised approach, with a key focus on water conservation, source sustainability, storage and reuse wherever possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Major issues causing water crisis. Why Water resource management need a new outlook? Conclusion. Way forward. According to the Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) report released by the Niti Aayog in 2018, 21 major cities (Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and others) are racing to reach zero groundwater… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cStrategy for water resource management require new approach and not the continuation of failed policies of the past.\u201d Comment.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52972","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}