A man-made crisis : Water scarcity.

[Hiral.s]

Water plays a very vital role in our life. Water is regarded as one the important source of our existence.

97% of water is constitued of saltwater; the freshwater used to sustain humans is only 3% of the total amount of water on earth. Since the population of India has tripled in 20th century, the use of water resources have also tripled.

The earlier use of rainwater and flood water declined. In its place, we are dependent on surface water (rivers) and ground water.

Today, the effects of this way of managing water are clearly visible. Such has been the level of extraction from rivers that most of India's river basin's have degraded and the rivers are polluted. Large dams are the major source of water storage. This has caused large scale community displacement and ecological havoc. Canals, the major distributory route, have caused large-scale degradation of land via soil salinization. Groundwater resources have been heavily over used.

Thus water availibility, in terms of quantity and quality has declined to a huge extent in India.

It is definetely a man-made crises. What precautions should you take for this??

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[vardhanvishnug]

it should be like THINK GLOBALLY AND ACT LOCALLY we need to save water in our houses first in routine uses

 

[dimpy.handa]

Water scarcity occurs even in areas where there is plenty of rainfall or freshwater. How water is conserved, used and distributed in communities, and the quality of the water available can determine if there is enough to meet the demands of households, farms, industry and the environment.