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Showing posts with label India-water. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
India most vulnerable to water shortages
India, the second-biggest producer of rice, wheat and sugar, is that the most vulnerable among the world’s leading industrial and rising economies to future water stress, in keeping with HSBC.
India exhibits the foremost worrying trends among the cluster of twenty nations with the resource “hovering hazardously close to extreme insufficiency levels” by 2030, HSBC same in a very report nowadays that forecast the group’s water consumption against offer.
The worst U.S. drought in a very time period drove corn and soybeans to records in August. Agriculture is that the biggest client of water and Bharat, the foremost enthusiastic about farming among the G-20 nations, uses twenty five % of all water consumed globally by the business, HSBC found.
Companies area unit unlikely nowadays to disclose data on native water insufficiency that may have an effect on farms, plants and operations, it said. Investors can {increasingly|progressively|more and a lot of} demand more revelation to assess potential disruption to earnings, it said.
According to United Nation definitions, Bharat is already formally water-stressed whereas Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, African country and Republic of Korea area unit water-scarce, the report same.
Historical trends are not any longer a reliable thanks to assess future convenience as temperature change affects rain patterns and glacial soften, it said. ever-changing water patterns have already forced the closure of power, oil and gas and textile facilities in Bharat this year, the report same.
Dry regions are becoming a lot of arid and wet areas wetter because the water cycle that circulates across the oceans, atmosphere and land intensifies at doubly the speed foreseen by world climate models, HSBC said.
India exhibits the foremost worrying trends among the cluster of twenty nations with the resource “hovering hazardously close to extreme insufficiency levels” by 2030, HSBC same in a very report nowadays that forecast the group’s water consumption against offer.
The worst U.S. drought in a very time period drove corn and soybeans to records in August. Agriculture is that the biggest client of water and Bharat, the foremost enthusiastic about farming among the G-20 nations, uses twenty five % of all water consumed globally by the business, HSBC found.
Companies area unit unlikely nowadays to disclose data on native water insufficiency that may have an effect on farms, plants and operations, it said. Investors can {increasingly|progressively|more and a lot of} demand more revelation to assess potential disruption to earnings, it said.
According to United Nation definitions, Bharat is already formally water-stressed whereas Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, African country and Republic of Korea area unit water-scarce, the report same.
Historical trends are not any longer a reliable thanks to assess future convenience as temperature change affects rain patterns and glacial soften, it said. ever-changing water patterns have already forced the closure of power, oil and gas and textile facilities in Bharat this year, the report same.
Dry regions are becoming a lot of arid and wet areas wetter because the water cycle that circulates across the oceans, atmosphere and land intensifies at doubly the speed foreseen by world climate models, HSBC said.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Release water from upstream dams
The Shiv Sena on Th demanded that chief minister Prithviraj Chavan direct the authorities involved to unharness water into the Jayakwadi dam, popularly called Nathsagar, from the upstream dams in Ahmednagar and Nashik districts.
Sena MP Chandrakant Khaire expressed concern concerning the irrigation state of affairs in Marathwada. He aforementioned that half the fourteen huge dams within the region still have zero per cent live storage of water, whereas there's little water stock within the different smaller dams despite the recent rain.
In a memo submitted to the chief minister, Khaire aforementioned that minor and medium irrigation comes too have simply eight to Martinmas water compared to their storage capability.
He realized that variety of dams area unit situated on the upstream of Jayakwadi dam, that gets water only if it's free from the upstream dams. Khaire conjointly aforementioned that several major dams together with Nilwande, Bhandardara, Mula, Darna, Gangapur and Palkhed were engineered a lot of once the Jayakwadi dam was created.
Khaire aforementioned that nowadays, the majority the upstream dams have ninety to ninety fifth water storage. He aforementioned that considering probabilities of excellent rain within the next few days, these dams would possibly overflow. He urged the chief minister to direct authorities involved to unharness water from these dams.
He conjointly aforementioned that the 5 districts of Marathwada - Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Parbhani and Nanded - rely heavily on the Jayakwadi dam for water for irrigation and drinking functions.
He vulnerable to launch associate degree agitation if matters was allowed to continue, since it'd badly have an effect on industries likewise as beverage offer systems within the region.
Sena MP Chandrakant Khaire expressed concern concerning the irrigation state of affairs in Marathwada. He aforementioned that half the fourteen huge dams within the region still have zero per cent live storage of water, whereas there's little water stock within the different smaller dams despite the recent rain.
In a memo submitted to the chief minister, Khaire aforementioned that minor and medium irrigation comes too have simply eight to Martinmas water compared to their storage capability.
He realized that variety of dams area unit situated on the upstream of Jayakwadi dam, that gets water only if it's free from the upstream dams. Khaire conjointly aforementioned that several major dams together with Nilwande, Bhandardara, Mula, Darna, Gangapur and Palkhed were engineered a lot of once the Jayakwadi dam was created.
Khaire aforementioned that nowadays, the majority the upstream dams have ninety to ninety fifth water storage. He aforementioned that considering probabilities of excellent rain within the next few days, these dams would possibly overflow. He urged the chief minister to direct authorities involved to unharness water from these dams.
He conjointly aforementioned that the 5 districts of Marathwada - Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Parbhani and Nanded - rely heavily on the Jayakwadi dam for water for irrigation and drinking functions.
He vulnerable to launch associate degree agitation if matters was allowed to continue, since it'd badly have an effect on industries likewise as beverage offer systems within the region.
Vainganga water level rises
Vainganga watercourse was flowing nine metres on top of the danger mark at recent Kardha bridge on Th morning. however the water started receding by evening. 2.46 large integer cusecs water was discharged from thirty three gates of Gosikhurd dam once the geographic area of the watercourse in Madhya Pradesh and geographical area full-fledged serious rains.
11 gates of the dam were raised up to three.5 metres whereas twenty two gates were raised up to three metres. Vainganga was flooded once serious rains in Rajegaon (225mm), Sitekasa Bawanthadi (125mm), Balaghat (57mm) and Bhandara (58mm) during a day.
Presently, there's a discharge of ten,500 cusecs from Sanjay Sarovar from its four gates that area unit raised up to solely zero.50 metres whereas three,200 cusecs area unit discharged from four gates of Pujaritola and therefore the gates area unit raised by .30 metres. On Wed, there was a discharge of two.46 large integer cusecs from Kanhan and therefore the recent bridge close to Mathani was submerged.
Water is discharge from Gosikhurd to take care of balance of flow and outflow of the watercourse. one in all the explanations for the flood-like state of affairs is that there's not one dam on watercourse Kanhan that makes it troublesome to manage the flow of water.
According to SDO Vinod Harkande, matters is in restraint. District collector SP Singh, government engineer Sripad Apate and Mohan Pangunwar of Central Water Commission visited the recent bridge on Vainganga watercourse close to Kardha and took stock of matters. He ordered the police personnel to place barricades on either side of the bridge to avert any untoward incident.
11 gates of the dam were raised up to three.5 metres whereas twenty two gates were raised up to three metres. Vainganga was flooded once serious rains in Rajegaon (225mm), Sitekasa Bawanthadi (125mm), Balaghat (57mm) and Bhandara (58mm) during a day.
Presently, there's a discharge of ten,500 cusecs from Sanjay Sarovar from its four gates that area unit raised up to solely zero.50 metres whereas three,200 cusecs area unit discharged from four gates of Pujaritola and therefore the gates area unit raised by .30 metres. On Wed, there was a discharge of two.46 large integer cusecs from Kanhan and therefore the recent bridge close to Mathani was submerged.
Water is discharge from Gosikhurd to take care of balance of flow and outflow of the watercourse. one in all the explanations for the flood-like state of affairs is that there's not one dam on watercourse Kanhan that makes it troublesome to manage the flow of water.
According to SDO Vinod Harkande, matters is in restraint. District collector SP Singh, government engineer Sripad Apate and Mohan Pangunwar of Central Water Commission visited the recent bridge on Vainganga watercourse close to Kardha and took stock of matters. He ordered the police personnel to place barricades on either side of the bridge to avert any untoward incident.
Monday, September 3, 2012
A Lesson From Indias Water Woes
The scene of water tanker lorries returning by a housing space individuals and folks chasing once them with their water containers has not modified abundant over the years during this country of quite a billion people.
With the monsoon turning away virtually 2 thirds of Bharat this year, the higher than scene is a lot of widespread because the lack of rain has reduced the provision of water to a chronic level.
Drought has already hit some states, namely, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
"But whether or not there's rain or not, water has invariably been a problem for United States of America," said P.Manikam, 46, United Nations agency lives at the knife Camp space in capital of India.
This year's monsoon rain recorded a deficit of twenty-two per cent whereas rain over key agriculture areas within the northwestern, central, south dry land, jap and northeastern components of Bharat has been less than thirty three per cent.
A recent government knowledge indicated that water level in India's main reservoirs was at twenty four p.c of capability, down by nineteen share points from a year past.
LIMITED water system
As for Manikam and quite 350 households within the knife Camp space, there was only 1 water system pipe accessible and also the faucet would dry up once a number of hours.
"Within a restricted time all the 350 families here need to quickly store enough water for his or her daily use," he said, adding that this has been the routine for the past twenty five years of his life.
Just like in some villages in Bharat, individuals within the nation's capital of recent Delhi too walk for miles to fetch water even these days.
"Sometimes we've got to cycle a number of kilometers to fetch water for the family if there's no provide through the only faucet or water tanker lorry," same a rather frustrated Manikam.
The residents, he said, had requested for a further pipe however to no avail.
A THIRSTY SUMMER
During the height summer months, "we go while not water for days," V.Abhati, 36, told Bernama.
"We ar the troubled heap. it's either an excessive amount of water (from floods) or none (at all)," same another resident within the settlement United Nations agency failed to need her name revealed.
"Will our issues be resolved tomorrow if I offer you my name? individuals return and go, our issues stay as they're," same the frustrated girl.
She realized that aside from 3 families within the settlement whose breadwinners work with the govt., the remainder ar daily wage earners.
"So, we won't afford to shop for water," she said, touching on the common observe by wealthy locals and foreigners United Nations agency purchase drinking water for his or her daily use.
"All we would like is reliable water system. Is that an excessive amount of to raise for?" she asked angrily before walking off from the cluster of individuals being interviewed.
Over twenty one per cent of transmissible diseases in Bharat ar associated with unsafe water.
When contacted in national capital, Universiti Malaya's senior analysis fellow Dr Marie Aimee Tourress same pollution may be a national severe drawback.
She adscititious that the Indian government ought to act quick particularly once India's water resources ministry disclosed recently that groundwater in 158 out of 639 districts had turned saline.
In sure pockets across 267 districts the groundwater was reported to contain excess halide, in 385 districts the water contained nitrate on the far side permissible levels, in fifty three districts arsenic was recorded and a high level of iron was found in 270 districts.
UNDERGROUND WATER SOURCES
Nearly eighty p.c of India's rural drinkable comes from underground sources. The growing health crisis may well be worse in rural Bharat wherever facilities to even sight chronic health issues arising out of water contamination isn't accessible.
In India, associate calculable one,600 kids die daily as a result of diseases caused by lack of fresh water, same rattan Jalan, the founder and principal adviser at Medium health care Consulting, in his recent presentation entitled, "Common Man Uncommon Problem".
"The capital of India Jal Board provides simply over thirty million cubiform metres of water per day, however solely seventeen million cubiform metres truly reach customers as a result of infrastructure issues like unseaworthy pipes," same rattan.
Although there has been real improvement in India's water infrastructure since 2008, completely was} absolutely poor for such an enormous population, noted Dr Marie.
IS THERE light-weight AT the top OF THE TUNNEL
The investments stay too low to face the increasing demand for drinkable and replacement the aging distribution infrastructure.
Today quite twenty five per cent of recent Delhi's population has access to solely 3 hours of water each day, same Dr Marie.
"This will solely grow worse if nothing is completed. the govt. should involve the non-public sector to speculate below partnership. To me, there's no alternative answer to beat the weak public investment."
Dr Marie same such a partnership ought to be seen as an excellent business chance for the non-public sector because the investment needed was calculable around US$30 billion, as long as tenders were awarded to firms with real water-related power.
"Not solely within the water infrastructure in and of itself however additionally altogether the water-related sectors and industries like the agriculture and residential sectors," she said.
A recent "State of the Environment" report by the Indian Government confirmed that quite 1 / 4 of India's harvest may well be in danger as early as 2025 as its groundwater is depleted on the far side recovery.
"Water is additionally a true government issue within the region wherever Bharat is one amongst the key players," same Dr Marie.
"India is connected to several countries through its rivers (which additionally provides water). the danger of polluting others isn't associate surrealistic situation. If there's one conflict, that the region cannot afford, may be a water conflict," she said.
Against this backcloth, Bharat has to desperately address its domestic water woes as not doing thus might motivate ruinous issues.
With the monsoon turning away virtually 2 thirds of Bharat this year, the higher than scene is a lot of widespread because the lack of rain has reduced the provision of water to a chronic level.
Drought has already hit some states, namely, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
"But whether or not there's rain or not, water has invariably been a problem for United States of America," said P.Manikam, 46, United Nations agency lives at the knife Camp space in capital of India.
This year's monsoon rain recorded a deficit of twenty-two per cent whereas rain over key agriculture areas within the northwestern, central, south dry land, jap and northeastern components of Bharat has been less than thirty three per cent.
A recent government knowledge indicated that water level in India's main reservoirs was at twenty four p.c of capability, down by nineteen share points from a year past.
LIMITED water system
As for Manikam and quite 350 households within the knife Camp space, there was only 1 water system pipe accessible and also the faucet would dry up once a number of hours.
"Within a restricted time all the 350 families here need to quickly store enough water for his or her daily use," he said, adding that this has been the routine for the past twenty five years of his life.
Just like in some villages in Bharat, individuals within the nation's capital of recent Delhi too walk for miles to fetch water even these days.
"Sometimes we've got to cycle a number of kilometers to fetch water for the family if there's no provide through the only faucet or water tanker lorry," same a rather frustrated Manikam.
The residents, he said, had requested for a further pipe however to no avail.
A THIRSTY SUMMER
During the height summer months, "we go while not water for days," V.Abhati, 36, told Bernama.
"We ar the troubled heap. it's either an excessive amount of water (from floods) or none (at all)," same another resident within the settlement United Nations agency failed to need her name revealed.
"Will our issues be resolved tomorrow if I offer you my name? individuals return and go, our issues stay as they're," same the frustrated girl.
She realized that aside from 3 families within the settlement whose breadwinners work with the govt., the remainder ar daily wage earners.
"So, we won't afford to shop for water," she said, touching on the common observe by wealthy locals and foreigners United Nations agency purchase drinking water for his or her daily use.
"All we would like is reliable water system. Is that an excessive amount of to raise for?" she asked angrily before walking off from the cluster of individuals being interviewed.
Over twenty one per cent of transmissible diseases in Bharat ar associated with unsafe water.
When contacted in national capital, Universiti Malaya's senior analysis fellow Dr Marie Aimee Tourress same pollution may be a national severe drawback.
She adscititious that the Indian government ought to act quick particularly once India's water resources ministry disclosed recently that groundwater in 158 out of 639 districts had turned saline.
In sure pockets across 267 districts the groundwater was reported to contain excess halide, in 385 districts the water contained nitrate on the far side permissible levels, in fifty three districts arsenic was recorded and a high level of iron was found in 270 districts.
UNDERGROUND WATER SOURCES
Nearly eighty p.c of India's rural drinkable comes from underground sources. The growing health crisis may well be worse in rural Bharat wherever facilities to even sight chronic health issues arising out of water contamination isn't accessible.
In India, associate calculable one,600 kids die daily as a result of diseases caused by lack of fresh water, same rattan Jalan, the founder and principal adviser at Medium health care Consulting, in his recent presentation entitled, "Common Man Uncommon Problem".
"The capital of India Jal Board provides simply over thirty million cubiform metres of water per day, however solely seventeen million cubiform metres truly reach customers as a result of infrastructure issues like unseaworthy pipes," same rattan.
Although there has been real improvement in India's water infrastructure since 2008, completely was} absolutely poor for such an enormous population, noted Dr Marie.
IS THERE light-weight AT the top OF THE TUNNEL
The investments stay too low to face the increasing demand for drinkable and replacement the aging distribution infrastructure.
Today quite twenty five per cent of recent Delhi's population has access to solely 3 hours of water each day, same Dr Marie.
"This will solely grow worse if nothing is completed. the govt. should involve the non-public sector to speculate below partnership. To me, there's no alternative answer to beat the weak public investment."
Dr Marie same such a partnership ought to be seen as an excellent business chance for the non-public sector because the investment needed was calculable around US$30 billion, as long as tenders were awarded to firms with real water-related power.
"Not solely within the water infrastructure in and of itself however additionally altogether the water-related sectors and industries like the agriculture and residential sectors," she said.
A recent "State of the Environment" report by the Indian Government confirmed that quite 1 / 4 of India's harvest may well be in danger as early as 2025 as its groundwater is depleted on the far side recovery.
"Water is additionally a true government issue within the region wherever Bharat is one amongst the key players," same Dr Marie.
"India is connected to several countries through its rivers (which additionally provides water). the danger of polluting others isn't associate surrealistic situation. If there's one conflict, that the region cannot afford, may be a water conflict," she said.
Against this backcloth, Bharat has to desperately address its domestic water woes as not doing thus might motivate ruinous issues.
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