The State of the Environment Report on Water Resources of Karnataka on the Department of Ecology and Environment (Government of Karnataka) site discusses the impact of environmental degradation on water resources and is divided into the following sections:
- Current status of the water resources
- Issues and impacts related to interlinkages between environmental problems and water resources and their impacts on availability, distribution, management, utilisation and sustenance of water resources
- Hotspots that highlight the magnitude of the problems related to environmental degradation with a view to enable decisionmakers to select activities like recharge of groundwater, prevent pollution, step up watershed development programmes etc.
- Trends to predict future water requirements
- Causes for scarcity of water
- Prioritisation according to degree and severity of environmental problems keeping in mind their socioeconomic and ecological impacts
- Action plan for optimising utilisation of groundwater and surface water for the next 25 years
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