In the future, fight may not be for gold, gas or oil but for
water. Why wait for future, even now many regions of India are under severe
water crisis. Farmers are committing suicide as back to back draughts wiped off
their savings and placed a question in front of their life itself. What more,
many interstate conflicts are about sharing water.
We can’t manufacture water like other commodities. We can conduct
reverse osmosis and produce drinking water in coastal areas. But this is a
costly affair and there are many parts of India which are far from any coastal
area.
It is in this situation we need to look in to alarming
reports coming out of Karnataka. In Kalburgi district of Karnataka, only half
of the bore wells are working; i.e. 2,674 out of 5,875.
Taluk wise,
Sedam (465 out of 826),
Aland (245 out of 714),
Jewargi (714 out of 1067),
Chittapur (398 out of 590),
Chincholi (581 out of 717) and in Kalburgi only 441 out of 990
are working.
Situation is really alarming if we are not doing something
now, then it may go out of hand. Double draught followed by severe water crisis
can break anyone’s back. State need to act fast of protecting the remaining
forests, rivers and wetlands.
Sajeev.
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