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What is price you are willing to pay for
these?
Water – A Unique Resource
Industry 22 59 10 15
Domestic 8 11 8 5
Usage of accessible water
Water Wars – Why and where are
these conflicts?
• Inequitable distribution and use of water
resources.
• Arise when water is used as instruments
of war, either as a tool or a target.
• Conflicts between industries and local
communities.
• Inter as well as intra- country conflicts.
Water – An Indian Perspective
• 60,000 villages with no water and still counting.
• Lack of safe drinking water leading to large no.
of diarrhoeal deaths.
• Increasing population, disuse and disappearance
of traditional tanks and ponds.
• Lack of community participation.
• Increase in run-off to the sea due to
deforestation and non-availability of tanks.
• Extraction rate of borewells exceeds its recharge
rate more than two times.
Solutions
• Reduce demand
• Catch rain whenever and wherever it falls.
• Adoption of decentralised systems of
water supply and sanitation.
• Adopt fairer policies.
Interlinking of Rivers –
A Panacea???
• Estimated investment – Rs 5600 to Rs 10000
billion.
• High interest burden for such a high investment.
• Political consensus – will it ever be achieved?
• River sources drying up and choked with silt.
• Water to be pumped uphill.
• Large scale submergence of habitats, forests,
biodiversity, etc.
Success stories on Water
Conservation and Management
• Auroville, Pondicherry – Reviving
traditional water bodies.
• Tarun Bharat Sangh – Building of Check
dams.
• Ralegaon Siddhi, Maharashtra –
Construction of bunds and percolation
tanks.
• And many more….
Bishop Cotton Girls High School - Bangalore
Pilot Project Planned: Bishop
Cottons Girls High School,
Bangalore
Roof Area
(square 800
metre) :
Rainfall
(millimetres) 970
:
Rainwater 0.78 million
Available : litres
Investment
25,000
Costs (Rs) :
Savings from
water
37,200 per year
harvested
(Rs)
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