{"id":28079,"date":"2018-10-23T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28079"},"modified":"2018-10-23T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:32:59","slug":"scaled-up-solutions-for-a-future-of-water-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scaled-up-solutions-for-a-future-of-water-scarcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaled-up solutions for a future of water scarcity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/scaled-up-solutions-for-a-future-of-water-scarcity\/article24575853.ece\">Scaled-up solutions for a future of water scarcity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Vikram Soni, professor and Aditi Veena, urban ecologist, discussed the India\u2019s water scarcity problems and also scaled up solutions for this problem.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>2. Presently, India is facing huge water scarcity due to the following reasons:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rising population<\/li>\n<li>Invasive schemes like dams to service large cities and huge needs of agriculture have caused extreme ecological devastation.<\/li>\n<li>In global market economies, the products and services that are derived from natural infrastructure have often led to the terminal loss of the source itself.<\/li>\n<li>Large scale non-invasive schemes are scarce because they are far more challenging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>3. The author has suggested the following points to address water scarcity problem:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large scale schemes that can provide a perennial supply of water to large population in cities and towns.<\/li>\n<li>Engage the natural landscape.<\/li>\n<li>Sustain ecological balance and have major economic and health benefits.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Conserve and use\u2019 our evolutionary resources with the help of science.<\/li>\n<li>Use and conserve floodplains, it can be self-sustaining acquifer every year. The Delhi-palla flood plain project on the Yamuna is an example of this.<\/li>\n<li>Land on the floodplains can be leased from farmers in return for a fixed income from the water sold to cities.<\/li>\n<li>The farmer can be encouraged to grow food forests to secure and restore the ecological balance of the river\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li>River floodplains are exceptional acquifers where any withdrawal is compensated by gravity flow from large surrounding area, can be used\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a source of providing water to cities.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme of \u2018conserve ad use\u2019 should be applied rationally; it would allow a forest to be sustained as a mineral water sanctuary. Forest could then provide enough natural mineral water.<\/li>\n<li>This water can improve the health of citizens and preserve forests at the same time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. Currently, mineral water is brought from faraway mountain springs, putting huge pressure on the mountains. It is packaged and consumed in plastic bottles that end up in landfills.<\/p>\n<p>5. Rain water through the various layers of humus and cracked rock pathways, picking up nutrients and minerals and flows into underground mineral water acquifers.<\/p>\n<p>6. Water in these aquifers is comparable to several international natural spring mineral waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scaled-up solutions for a future of water scarcity Article: Vikram Soni, professor and Aditi Veena, urban ecologist, discussed the India\u2019s water scarcity problems and also scaled up solutions for this problem. Important facts: 2. Presently, India is facing huge water scarcity due to the following reasons: Rising population Invasive schemes like dams to service large&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scaled-up-solutions-for-a-future-of-water-scarcity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scaled-up solutions for a future of water scarcity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}