Long time back , someone had said :
The third World War will be fought over water
I don't know about World War 3 , but I have a dreadful
feeling that , soon enough , a Civil War may get fought over water in our
country !
For decades , our Southern States have been fighting
over the waters of Krishna , Kaveri , Godavari etc
Recently , Punjab has stopped supplying water to
Haryana thru SYL ( Sutlej - Yamuna Link canal )
In the meantime , 10 States are declared " Drought
Affected "
Section 144 has been imposed in Latur and other cities
Armed police are deployed to protect water-stealing
from dams in Bundelkhand
Thousands of farmers in Maharashtra / Rajasthan are
committing suicide because of crop failures , leading to starvation
Lakhs of drought-affected villagers are migrating to
city-slums / railway platforms / under the city-bridges
Villagers are refusing to marry their daughters to
youth in drought affected villages
Lakhs of women are trudging 10 KM in 40* C temperature
to fetch a bucketful of water
Even children ( under age of 10 ) are leaving studies
and waiting with pots , for the arrival of water tanker
Maharashtra CM , Fadnavis says : You may shift the IPL
outside Maharashtra , if you wish ! We
are not supplying POTABLE WATER to stadiums !
What is holding him back to say : Sorry , potable or
not , I will not allow IPL
to WASTE , 60 Lakh liters of water , under any
circumstance !
Several World Bodies have forecast that by 2050 ,
millions will die in India due to water shortage
WHAT IS THE
PERMANENT SOLUTION ?
# At the level of Central Government
* Make " Water Conservation / Usage "
, a CENTRAL SUBJECT in our
Constitution
. Remove it from the list of STATE SUBJECTS
* Declare all existing sources of water ( Rivers
and Lakes ) , as National
Resources
belonging to entire Nation and not to the particular State
where these
are located
* Make it Center's responsibility to decide
which State shall use how
much of
each of these resource ( allocation / rationing )
* Center will
also be responsible for developing of future resources by
digging lakes & ponds / building dams /
interlinking rivers & lakes etc
Use MNREGA
funds for creating such assets
* Center will not need permission of any State
to implement such projects
* Center will implement " River
Interlinking " Project by 2025 , and for this,
it will not require permission of any State
As
repeatedly lobbied by me , please find a way to divert BLACK MONEY
to this
Infrastructure SPV ( Tax haven or local - which is 100 times ! )
* Mercilessly ,
shut down all factories dumping polluting effluents in rivers
# At the level of State Governments
* Make following
mandatory for ALL buildings ( existing or future )
+ Rain water harvesting system ( this tank to
supply toilets / sinks etc )
+ Recycling of water from Kitchen / Shower / Wash
Basins, for use in
toilets , by installing a simple sand
filtering tank in society compounds
+ Installation of water flow restricting devices in all
taps
+ Mechanism which stops water flow when hands
are removed under tap
+ Water Supply Cut of 25 % , round the year
Do not
raise Water Charges . The higher the charges , more ways will
be found
to evade ( as in case of Personal Income Tax ! )
Water
meters will get tempered or bypassed !
Note the following :
* Of all the
water that rains bring , 99 % flows out to seas, leaving 1 %
on land
* Out of this
1% , 99 % percolates into the ground , leaving 1 % ( of that
1 % ) , into
lakes above the ground !
* 75 % of
earth's surface is covered with seas / oceans . So , really , there
is PLENTY of
water
* Nature ( Sun
) has gifted the Earth with evaporation / condensation cycle
which
converts the salty sea water into distilled potable water,
automatically
/ continuously , and deliver onto the land masses
Amount of water falling as rain on land each year is 2.4 trillion meter cube ,
more than 10 times the annual requirement of 7 billion earthlings , at the
rate of 100 litres per person per day !
Amount of water falling as rain on land each year is 2.4 trillion meter cube ,
more than 10 times the annual requirement of 7 billion earthlings , at the
rate of 100 litres per person per day !
As far as
India is concerned , all that is required , is to dig 700,000
ponds / lakes ( one in each village ) , where
we capture / store rain water
* These 700,000
ponds must be lined with Geo-Synthetic Fabrics to ensure
that the
captured water does not seep underground - a simple technology
* Capturing most
of rain water in these ponds , will raise the water table in
bore wells
* None of the
above suggestions require Rocket Science ! But , even if it
does , our
Scientists who have sent Mars Orbital Mission , are quite
capable of
finding appropriate solutions !
I hope the Center / the State Governments and all the
political parties , rise
above their differences and join hands , to avoid a
CIVIL WATER WAR !
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