Article courtesy: Countercurrents.org
Author: Ravi Nitesh
On the world water day, again governments and organizations celebrated the day , seminars and screenings were organized, schemes and policies were announced and path for the sustainable future became somewhat populous with the right approach and concerned people. Though all these efforts were made the day an opportunity to join hands for the growth of human community and the ‘life’ as a whole. Life cannot be imagined without water and that is why ‘water is life’ has become a popular phrase.
Since the time of surplus water availability at almost all places , human community witnessed the scarcity in ground water findings and became worried from the continuous decreasing ground water. It is actually ground water that is to be used for drinking purpose. In spite of major part of water in total proportion of earth (2/3rd) , water available for drinking purpose is very less (about 1% only) out of this proportion.
We all know about the facts and ‘some’ of us also try to save water as much as we can. In Indian context, many things vary with latitude and longitude of the sub continent. Due to different geographical conditions, we must have to think about some region specific plans also. For example, water recycling may be a useful tool for over populous regions and with cities of high population density where ground water availability is less.
Attention should be more towards the cities where pollutants have much chance to interact with water and in turn any probability to contaminate the water. For other cities and hilly areas and valleys, more attention should be towards protection of natural resources, water sources , trees and to maintain and protect overall flora and fauna.
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