Water crises

Water crises

In today’s world each and every country is aware about the harsh reality of water depletion but the hangover of modernization and the race to outshining each other has made them dumb. There are many cities where people thrive for water, and are some areas where peoples don’t give any shit to water because the water is available for them 24*7 a week. There are many countries where water is getting scarce day by day and India is among one of them. The government should also take necessary measures for overcoming this problem, but I don’t think our current government is doing something for this. In a recent Lok Sabha meeting where water crises was to be discussed, hardly 10-12 members were there to attend the meeting which shows than no one is bothered about scarcity of water. In Asia, India has the most amount of water available as compared to other fellow countries. But still why we hear that there is scarcity of water in a country like India where water is available in huge number, the actual reason is people don’t have value of what they get in abundance. There are some countries, which have found solution for this problem and are actually implementing it, India should also learn from other countries.

·       Israel: Israel has most advanced techniques for solving this problem. Firstly, Israel stopped unnecessary wastage of water, then it developed the technique for cleaning waste water by this they increased the percentage of water in water bodies by discharging it in their natural bodies. The water harvesting system of Israel is very modern and effective. By following these techniques Israel has become a scarce free state.

·       Brazil: Brazil has done a great job in the rain water harvesting system. In this system the rainwater is collected from the rooftops and then it goes through pipe and gets stored in a tank. Brazil has 18% of world’s fresh water, but the big cities of Brazil get only 28% of water. So in order to cope up with this situation they implemented rain water harvesting on a larger scale and the government of Brazil urged people to adopt this method.

·       Singapore: Singapore spread the network of storm water harvesting in whole country, in this method the water from floods are collected and then further processed to make it fit for consumption. The flood water is collected from drains, roads, parks, gardens etc.

·       China: China started a project named 121 to control scarcity of water, in this project Chinese government adopted rain water harvesting. This project was launched in 1990 after the acute water shortage in whole country. Under this project each family has to store at least 2 buckets of rain water. This project proved to be successful.

·       Australia: the Australian government gives financial support to those people who save water, the government also urges people to adopt various techniques and methods to reduce the crises.

It is said that if there would be next world war then it will be on water.  So India should also take some serious steps regarding this situation otherwise it will lead to war and chaos.