Water crisis in India

Sir,
According to a research by Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay the thirst of India will increase by 24 percent in 2025 and a massive 74 percent by 2050. This means that our nations need for water will almost double up in the next thirty years but our water resources will almost remain the same.
The Republic of India houses 18 percent of the worlds total population but only 4 percent of the worlds total water resources. According to NITI Aayog the groundwater usage rate in Delhi and 21 other major cities is so high that they are not giving the groundwater levels time to recharge and as a result their groundwater is probably going to run out by year 2020.
Another factor which contributes significantly to the decreasing water reserves is water pollution. There are a number of major rivers in India and all have the problem of water pollution but most significant of these is the holy river Ganges which together with its tributaries quenches the thirst of 40 percent population of India but is the 6th most polluted river in the world, thanks to the discharge of raw and untreated sewage into the river.
The Government has also taken some steps to clean these rivers such as the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) launched in 1986 which was focused on cleaning on cleaning up the river Ganges but it didn’t have any major effect..
This kind of crisis like situation makes us think of the future generations while using water. Water which was once a renewable resource is not so renewable today because of its high consumption. To help the human race sustain we have to save water to our greatest extent. ‘Save water, save life’ is a slogan well written because without water the human race would neither exist nor sustain.
Aditya Wazir
Katra

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