{"id":201868,"date":"2022-08-25T18:44:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=201868"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:15:08","slug":"water-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/water-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Of India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>The post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Water of India<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on <strong>25<sup>th<\/sup> August 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong> GS 3 &#8211; Major Crops &#8211; Cropping Patterns in various parts of the country, &#8211; Different Types of Irrigation and Irrigation Systems; ; Ecology and Environment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance:<\/strong> Water efficiency, climate change, water resources in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Recently, China\u2019s southwestern regions were battling fires following a severe heat wave.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the other extreme weather events around the world?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h6><strong>Global level<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>(1) Europe last month experienced heatwaves and wildfires<\/p>\n<p>(2) The US government has for the first time ever declared a water shortage on the critical Colorado River.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Indian level<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>In March, parts of India experienced a severe heatwave which shrunk the wheat output.<\/p>\n<p>At a regional level, there are <strong>deficiencies<\/strong> in monsoon rainfall across a vast area from UP to Bengal. It would negatively impact the paddy output because it is a water-intensive crop.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the other major issues with water resources in India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>(1)<strong> Resource Scarcity:<\/strong> India has 17% of the world\u2019s population and 4% of its water resources.\u00a0Most of India\u2019s groundwater draft goes to irrigation (90%). Further, Indian farmers use 2-4 times more water to produce a unit of grain as compared to China and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Paddy and sugarcane consume more than 60% of the irrigation water available, as per NABARD and ICRIER.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Further, India\u2019s cultivation patterns are out of sync with its <strong>resource endowments<\/strong>. The water-intensive crops are cultivated in the most <strong>water-scarce regions of India<\/strong>. For example, paddy cultivation in Punjab.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the solutions to improve water resources in India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The states should<strong> bring policies to change cropping patterns.<\/strong> For example, Punjab is unsuitable for paddy cultivation. Therefore, policies should be introduced to incentivise farmers in Punjab to move to <strong>less water-intensive crops.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further, the state governments in Eastern India, need to focus on higher crop yields.<\/p>\n<p>India can no longer afford in-kind subsidies that distort prices and impact the environment. For example, free electricity incentivises more borewells. Therefore, <strong>market-responsive prices<\/strong> are required as these prices reflect the scarcity of resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWater of India\u201d published in The Times of India on 25th August 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 &#8211; Major Crops &#8211; Cropping Patterns in various parts of the country, &#8211; Different Types of Irrigation and Irrigation Systems; ; Ecology and Environment Relevance: Water efficiency, climate change, water resources&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/water-of-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water Of India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-201868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700641357},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}