{"id":87176,"date":"2020-03-02T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T04:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14041"},"modified":"2020-03-02T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T04:50:16","slug":"water-crisis-looms-large-in-himalayan-regions-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/water-crisis-looms-large-in-himalayan-regions-finds-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Water crisis looms large in Himalayan regions, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>According to a survey, published in the journal Water Policy, eight towns in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region of Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan were nearly 20%-70% deficient in their water supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Major Challenges faced:<\/strong> changing water budgets, increasing demand for water and water scarcity.<\/li><li><strong>Reasons for water crisis:<\/strong> poor water governance, lack of urban planning, poor tourism management during peak season, and climate-related risks and challenges<\/li><li><strong>Solutions:<\/strong> Holistic water management approach that includes springshed management and planned adaptation<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Hindu Kush and Himalayan Range (HKH):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It&nbsp; is famously known as the earth\u2019s \u201cthird pole\u201d as it forms the largest area of permanent ice cover outside of the North and South Poles.<\/li><li>It spans Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-ySVCSaYKiqYnaC56qovaFs3fUY-V_1zrR7tUGx_QUBAWZh7J5yWqNbanYMaW39HgpkE4ML0CIHctyfW_LtYOdmlfrpIq-ZY3rLwOrC0stV5usuYiHNAHgR1dMdt1jZV3pcEVJs_\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to a survey, published in the journal Water Policy, eight towns in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region of Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan were nearly 20%-70% deficient in their water supply. Facts: Key takeaways: Major Challenges faced: changing water budgets, increasing demand for water and water scarcity. Reasons for water crisis: poor water&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/water-crisis-looms-large-in-himalayan-regions-finds-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water crisis looms large in Himalayan regions, finds study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-87176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-water-crisis","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704631391},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87176","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=87176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}