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India’s ‘worst water crisis in its history’ is only going to get worse
India is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history and around 600 million people face a severe water shortage, according to a government think tank.
Approximately 200,000 people die every year due to inadequate access to clean water and it’s “only going to get worse” as 21 cities are likely to run out of groundwater by 2020.
In the longer term, the undersupply will become even more acute in the South Asian nation, as demand increases with the 1.4 billion population growing at a rate of around 1 per cent.
“By 2030, the country’s water demand is projected to be twice the available supply,” the Niti Aayog report reads. “[This will cause] severe water scarcity for hundreds of millions of people.”
“There is an imminent need to deepen our understanding of our water resources and usage and put in place interventions that make our water use efficient and sustainable.”
The expected degree of water scarcity will account for a 6 per cent loss in India’s gross domestic product.
Indian cities and towns often run out of water throughout the summer due to the absence of infrastructure to deliver piped water to homes.
Sprawling queues for government water tankers and public taps are already a common sight in Indian slums since people are reliant on the service and the impending disaster would leave this provision even more thinly stretched.
Erratic rainfall also causes chaos in rural areas where people are similarly affected by a lack of access to safe water.
Groundwater is increasingly used for farming when monsoon rains do not deliver a sufficient level of precipitation meaning there is little to drink.
There has been an effort to develop sustainable water supplies in India in recent years with water conservation legislation existing in 80 per cent of the country.
However, poor data management and an abject failure to properly price water has prevented the country from making any significant progress.
“Where data is available, it is often unreliable due to the use of outdated collection techniques and methodologies,” according to the report. “For example, groundwater data in India is based on an inadequate sample of [around] 55,000 wells out of a total [approximately] 12 million in the country.”
In what could serve as encouragement to step up the pursuit of policies to better conserve water, several water-scarce states are the best at managing the resource.
Some of the best performers in the national composite water index – Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana – are states that have suffered from severe droughts in recent years.
“The action taken by these states, and their subsequent good performance on the index, are likely driven by necessity in the face of looming water shortages,” asserts the report.
Other policies, such as the provision of free utilities, have not had the anticipated result.
“Policies like several states giving free electricity to farmers or giving financial support for groundwater extraction – borewells and tubewells – results in uncontrolled exploitation and wastage of resource,” Suresh Rohilla, director of urban water management at the Centre for Science and Environment, told CNN.
Drip irrigation, a method that means farmers use drastically less fertiliser and diesel, has failed to become popular and its implementation is expensive for most people with state governments providing limited support.
“Primarily, water is not valued in India. It is very cheap in India,” Samrat Basak, director for urban water at the World Resources Institute, told CNN. “People think it is free.”
Alarmingly, the states ranked lowest – like Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Jharkhand – are home to almost half of India’s population along with the majority of its agricultural produce.
268 Comments on "India’s ‘worst water crisis in its history’ is only going to get worse"
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 1:46 pm
And, what is it with your Playboy bullshit? How is being in a committed monogamous relationship with the same woman for 28 years and working my ass off for 30 years since I emancipated myself at age 16 being a playboy? Please enlighten me! Do you realize how irrational your nonsense sounds, exceptionalist?
Davy on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 1:52 pm
Stupid Miami playboy, being where you are at has a huge cost. Quit acting like you deserve anything including being in the US. Who cares about any taxes you ever paid. We don’t want ungrateful guest here. Maybe you will get arrested for something and they will deport you. You epitomize a slimy unwelcome guest who is a loud mouth and a braggart. Go back to your stupid little country you are so proud of. What a twisted thinking you have.
Davy on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 1:54 pm
Juan, dumbass I am not talking about your boring sex life. I am talking about where you live and how you live. You are a rich South American brat with no job. That has playboy written all over it.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:03 pm
Greg
The fact that you won’t ask an expert..Proves beyond any doubt that you are full of shit..And if you think all the experts are wrong and only you know the real “truth”..You are a fucking moron..Stop spamming this site with your lunatic fact free conspiracies..And stop picking on Davy for no fucking reason..Pick on somebody your own size.You gutless coward.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:14 pm
“Good boy grehggie. You first actual topic based comment.”
“Good boy, Davy! Your first actual civil comment in hours! LOL!”
If you ignore the facts that he misspelled my username, called me a boy, and wrote ‘you first’ when he should have written ‘your first’.
Other than that, completely respectful and civil.
Maybe nothing better can be expected from his delusional .0001%er royal highness?
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:16 pm
MM,
The word expert means jack shit. For any scenario you choose to pick, one can find an ‘expert’ who will back your claim, especially if you pay him enough money.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:20 pm
Delusional Davy “Stupid Miami playboy, being where you are at has a huge cost. Quit acting like you deserve anything including being in the US. Who cares about any taxes you ever paid. We don’t want ungrateful guest here. Maybe you will get arrested for something and they will deport you. You epitomize a slimy unwelcome guest who is a loud mouth and a braggart. Go back to your stupid little country you are so proud of. What a twisted thinking you have.”
Where to begin? Let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start. I am going to break up my reply into several posts because you wrote so many insults, lies, and inaccuracies that this is going to be long. Your first word calling me stupid is both an insult and a lie. I do live in Miami Beach, which is not exactly Miami, but maybe you don’t know the difference. Your third word “playboy” is a lie, but I don’t consider it an insult, though you probably meant it as one. LOL! Let’s move on to your second sentence; you should know after hanging out here for years that living in a densely populated urban core area like I do is more resource efficient than living in the suburbs or a rural area. If you don’t know this then google it and you will find out I am right and you are wrong.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:27 pm
Delusional Davy “Quit acting like you deserve anything including being in the US. Who cares about any taxes you ever paid.”
I deserve to live wherever I want, including the USA if I so please. I am a legal permanent US resident with the right to live in the USA for as long as I want. It is your problem if you don’t like it, not mine. I’ve paid taxes in the USA for 28 years and never took a penny from the US government and never will, not that it matters.
Davy on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:30 pm
“Other than that, completely respectful and civil.”
dumbass, when have you been respectful. You try to come across that way but you are a fake. Some of the meanest shit on this board is from you. OH sure you don’t use names as much but you do the really nasty things like attack family or play like you are going to get personal with threats. You are a slime ball grehggie.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:34 pm
“We don’t want ungrateful guest here.”
There’s that royal ‘we’ again. LOL
Obviously America does want JuanP to live there, or he wouldn’t be a legal permanent U.S. resident, now would he.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:35 pm
Greg
You damn well what an expert is..The historians on reddit all list their qualifications and most are in general professors of history..Put your theories to the test or stop spewing them please..Keep your mental illness and jew hatred to yourself..
Davy on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:37 pm
“I do live in Miami Beach, which is not exactly Miami, but maybe you don’t know the difference. “
Dummy, Miami Beach is greater Miami quit playing games.
“Your third word “playboy” is a lie, but I don’t consider it an insult, though you probably meant it as one.”
You are a rich spoiled South American brat that has said here multiple times you don’t give a rats ass about others you are going to live it up because it does not matter anyway. Wow, like that isn’t giving yourself a moral break.
“LOL! Let’s move on to your second sentence; you should know after hanging out here for years that living in a densely populated urban core area like I do is more resource efficient than living in the suburbs or a rural area.”
BS, people should not being living next to the ocean in densely populated urban cores that are going to be destroyed and my tax dollars are going to pay for. Go live inland in and one where you are doing something useful not playing the playboy.
“If you don’t know this then google it and you will find out I am right and you are wrong.”
I don’t need google to tell me you are slimy South American brat living here as a guest but hating the place. Get out of here slim ball.
Cloggie on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:38 pm
“And stop picking on Davy for no fucking reason..”
Millimind comes to the aid of good goy Davy.
“Pick on somebody your own size.You gutless coward.”
This is not exactly a compliment for Davy.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:38 pm
“. OH sure you don’t use names as much but you do the really nasty things like attack family or play like you are going to get personal with threats.”
I feel sorry for your “family” Davy, and if I knew exactly who you were, and where you reside, I would report you to the local authorities.
You are a loose cannon Davy, and it’s only a matter of time before you go AWOL. If you haven’t already done so, which is highly likely.
Davy on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:39 pm
“I deserve to live wherever I want, including the USA if I so please”
You’re a guest Juan. If you want to become a citizen then do it otherwise you are stupid guest using the place for your pleasure and stabbing us in the back. Get out of here and go home. We don’t need your stupid tax dollars. Take your money and go. BYE unwanted impolite guest.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:42 pm
“You damn well what an expert is.”
I most certainly do MM. The experts told everyone that the Earth was flat, for at least several thousand years.
Davy on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:42 pm
“I feel sorry for your “family” Davy, and if I knew exactly who you were, and where you reside, I would report you to the local authorities.”
Oh here we go grehggie, trying to turn the table’s away from his poor behavior. You have no clue where my family is are what I have stupid.
“You are a loose cannon Davy, and it’s only a matter of time before you go AWOL. If you haven’t already done so, which is highly likely.”
Greggieh, you are sick and need help. Some of your comments here have been very mean and disturbed. I may call people names but I don’t have an evil streak like you do.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:46 pm
Delusional Davy “We don’t want ungrateful guest here. Maybe you will get arrested for something and they will deport you. You epitomize a slimy unwelcome guest who is a loud mouth and a braggart. Go back to your stupid little country you are so proud of. What a twisted thinking you have.”
Who cares what you want? Not even your own kids! LOL! Why would I get arrested or get deported if I am a law abiding person? You make absolutely no sense! The fact that you don’t want me here doesn’t mean that the people I interact with in Miami don’t welcome me, they do because I go out of my way every single day to be nice and funny and help others, something you should try! I am only a loud mouth and a braggart when I want to and with reason. You know perfectly well that I am not particularly proud of my country though it is not a bad place compared to the rest of the world, including the USA. And I am not going anywhere any time soon! LOL
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:48 pm
“You have no clue where my family is are what I have stupid.”
You have repeatedly told everyone here that your “family” lives in Hermann MO Davy, away from you, which is a good thing.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:51 pm
The Republican Party has lost its mind on immigration
http://www.businessinsider.com/gop-loses-mind-on-immigration-under-trump-with-border-separation-policy-2018-6
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:53 pm
“I may call people names but I don’t have an evil streak like you do.”
You have been personally attacking many others here, including myself, on an almost daily basis for five years now Davy. If you can’t learn to extend others even the most minuscule amount of common courtesy and respect, I will never stop calling you out on your delusional bullshit.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:53 pm
Delusional Davy “Dummy, Miami Beach is greater Miami quit playing games.”
Ah, it is greater Miami now. Unfortunately, you are still wrong. The area is called “Greater Miami and the Beaches” and Miami Beach is one of the beaches and not part of greater Miami, which is the part of the county on the other side of Biscayne Bay. Miami and Miami Beach are separate, distinct cities and legal entities. You are wrong again. If you are going to correct other people, exceptionalist, you should at least know what the fuck you are talking about! LOL!
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:56 pm
Delusional Davy “BS, people should not being living next to the ocean in densely populated urban cores that are going to be destroyed and my tax dollars are going to pay for. Go live inland in and one where you are doing something useful not playing the playb…”
I see that every time you lose an argument you move the goal posts, loser! What tax dollars, your daddy’s?
onlooker on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 2:58 pm
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/06/18/while-children-are-in-cages/
While Children Are In Cages
Cloggie on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:03 pm
Germany is coming back to its senses regarding gate crashers.
Horst Seehofer had imposed an ultimatum on Merkel yesterday and today she caved in, sort of.
The ultimatum is: “unless you, Merkel, will be able to hammer out a European agreement on immigration within 2 weeks, I Seehofer, will begin to close the German borders”.
Little tidbit: everybody, including the communist empire press, admitted that a European agreement is not in the cards.
Tellingly, in 2 weeks time Merkel has ordered the highest possible level of consultations within her party and everybody and his mother expect that Merkel will decide what to do:
1. Blow up the coalition, sack Seehofer and swap the CSU for the Greens.
2. Resign
Sacking means the end of “die Union”, the union of CDU and CSU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDU/CSU#Brief_1976_separation
A poll in 2016 showed that a nation-wide CSU could score 16%. Together with the AfD that would mean 30% for populism.
It is very difficult to imagine that the rupture can be mended.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:06 pm
Delusional Davy “I don’t need google to tell me you are slimy South American brat living here as a guest but hating the place. Get out of here slim ball.”
I am a US legal permanent resident, moron. I am entitled by US law to live in the USA for the rest of my life if I so choose. I am not going anywhere, and I admit that the fact that you want me to go delights me! LOL!
Davy on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:06 pm
“You have repeatedly told everyone here that your “family” lives in Hermann MO Davy, away from you, which is a good thing.”
Grehggie, I have repeatedly told you to leave my family out of your attacks but you and butthole Juan like attacking family
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:11 pm
Delusional Davy “You’re a guest Juan. If you want to become a citizen then do it otherwise you are stupid guest using the place for your pleasure and stabbing us in the back. Get out of here and go home. We don’t need your stupid tax dollars. Take your money and go. BYE unwanted impolite guest.”
You sound like a broken record, exceptionalist! I am a legal US permanent resident entitled to stay in the USA for as long as I want. I could if I wanted to become a US citizen, but there is no advantage for me in doing so and several disadvantages so I will not do it. I am not going anywhere, other than on vacation, moron! LOL!
Davy on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:11 pm
“You have been personally attacking many others here, including myself, on an almost daily basis for five years now Davy.”
You have done the same grehggie but many of my attacks are related to anti-American attacks. It is self-defense. You can’t say the things you do that are indirect but still offensive. Get a grip you can’t have your cake and eat it. You can’t disrespect and not expect to be disrespected.
“If you can’t learn to extend others even the most minuscule amount of common courtesy and respect, I will never stop calling you out on your delusional bullshit.’
You deserve no respect grehggie and disrespect is good medicine for you. You are an extremely foul person parading and whining about others being foul. I admit I attack people and they deserve it. You act like you don’t but you do making you a hypocritical liar.
Davy on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:14 pm
“I am a legal US permanent resident entitled to stay in the USA for as long as I want.
BS, Juan, your paperwork has to be renewed. You don’t just get to hang out as you please. If you ever get arrested it gets difficult. We don’t want you here you are a freeloading scumbag. Get out of my country and go home please. BYE
“I could if I wanted to become a US citizen, but there is no advantage for me in doing so and several disadvantages so I will not do it. I am not going anywhere, other than on vacation, moron! LOL!”
Like I said friggen playboy thinking about vacation. Must be nice.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:17 pm
Greg “You have repeatedly told everyone here that your “family” lives in Hermann MO Davy, away from you, which is a good thing.”
As I recollect, his first wife lives in Spain with his only daughter, and neither of them want anything to do with him. The woman he impregnated with the twins lives in Missouri, and she doesn’t want anything to do with him. The twins supposedly visit every once in a while for a day or two. He claims to be remarried to an Italian woman who lives in St. Louis. Whether any of these stories he has told us through the years is true is anyone’s guess!
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:24 pm
“Get out of my country and go home please. BYE”
The USA does not belong to you Davy, and JuanP is legally entitled to stay for as long as he likes.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:26 pm
Delusional Davy “BS, Juan, your paperwork has to be renewed. You don’t just get to hang out as you please. If you ever get arrested it gets difficult. We don’t want you here you are a freeloading scumbag. Get out of my country and go home please. BYE”
Yes, Davy, I do have to renew my residency every ten years. It is nothing more than a bureaucratic formality and my immigration attorney takes care of that. I just get to hang out as I please. One of the advantages of being well off. Even if I ever got arrested, though I can’t imagine why I would, I could still renew my residency, unless I committed a violent felony. Who is WE again? It’s you and you alone, moron, there is no WE! I am staying in the USA for as long as I want and you have no say on it, moron! HELLO!
Cloggie on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:28 pm
Trump intervenes in German situation and exerts pressure on Merkel:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44524873
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:31 pm
Onlooker
I know its sad isn’t it..I can’t wail till the oil starts to run out soon..then its pay back time..
onlooker on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:35 pm
Maybe, they should put Trump’s kid in a cage for awhile, see how he likes that
Cloggie on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:36 pm
“Holiday in Brighton rather than Mallorca”
Rumor has it that in case of a no-deal Brexit, Britons will be locked up on their island in case Brussels retaliates and halts all air traffic to The Continent.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5855739/EU-threatens-ground-flights-Brexit.html
Interesting times.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:41 pm
“I can’t wail till the oil starts to run out soon..then its pay back time.”
Oil is a finite resource MM. Finite resources begin running out the moment they begin to be consumed.
It does appear likely that humanity is close to producing the largest volumes of oil that it ever has, but unfortunately for life as we know it on the one and only planet that the humans will ever have to call home, there is still a shit ton of it left to exploit.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:43 pm
Delusional Davy “Like I said friggen playboy thinking about vacation. Must be nice.”
Yes, it is VERY nice. After working my ass off for thirty years, basically without a break and almost every single day, and living below my means all my life, I am independently wealthy and comfortably retired. And that is without ever touching a penny of my family’s money for my own use. I did use some of the money I receive from my family to help my wife’s nephews, though. I still live well below my means so I save money every day. But, I don’t travel around the world like I could because I don’t care for it. I will go rafting and hikind on Appalachia this summer, though, a very low key vacation.
Anonymouse1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:45 pm
Does your backwater have anything like a help line where individuals suffering from (severe) mental health issues can call for help expcetionalturd? Or did their funding get redirected to the pentagon, leaving individuals, such as yourself, high and dry?
You are more than a little reluctant to seek help on your own, maybe you should think about that, more than the say, Juans citizenship status.
onlooker on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:46 pm
Greg, not to mention COAL AND NAT GAS
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:49 pm
Yes onlooker, and pretty much anything else that humanity can figure out how to light on fire.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:55 pm
Onlooker
Projection of world fossil fuels by country (Mohr, 2015)
Over 900 different regions and subfuel situations were modeled using three URR scenarios of Low, High, and Best Guess. All three scenarios indicate that the consistent strong growth in world fossil fuel production (Coal,Oil,Gas) is likely to cease after 2025. The Low and Best Guess scenarios are projected to peak before 2025 and decline thereafter. The High scenario is anticipated to have a strong growth to 2025 before stagnating in production for 50 years and thereafter declining.
https://www.scribd.com/document/375110317/Projection-of-World-Fossil-Fuels-by-Country-Mohr-2015
Shell forecasts global Natural Gas supply shortage in mid-2020s
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/shell-warns-of-lng-shortage-as-demand-for-liquefied-natural-gas-booms.html
Coal cannot work without crude, crude cannot work without coal, natural gas cannot work without both oil and coal, Shale oil cannot work without any of those, and so on…etc.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:57 pm
“I admit I attack people and they deserve it.”
In a free and democratic society Davy, people do not deserve to be attacked for expressing their own personal opinions.
As I have pointed out to you numerous times before, if you have such a serious problem with the constitution, freedom of expression and freedom of speech, there are plenty of brutal dictatorships on this planet, who uphold the same values as you do.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 3:57 pm
I love me a good ole country gurl!
https://i.redd.it/l9s4zdnyks411.jpg
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 4:00 pm
“Coal cannot work without crude, crude cannot work without coal, natural gas cannot work without both oil and coal, Shale oil cannot work without any of those, and so on…etc.”
Coal worked just fine by itself for a very long time MM, And mankind survived perfectly well without any of the above for hundreds of thousands of years.
onlooker on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 4:04 pm
Yep,we will go back to the old ways of screwing up the Earth albeit with a whole lot more humans with commensurate more use and need for resources
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 4:17 pm
“Yep,we will go back to the old ways of screwing up the Earth albeit with a whole lot more humans with commensurate more use and need for resources”
If humanity is fortunate onlooker. Judging from the weather that we’ve had here so far this year, things are not looking at all promising for our specie’s long term survivability.
Boat on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 4:17 pm
Hmmmmm. Not as much loss as previously lead to believe.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/18/rising-seas-climate-change-coastal-homes-floods/710141002/
Who says MSM hides the dangers of climate change.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 4:21 pm
Cloggie, I admit I don’t know much about European politics, but I am increasingly curious about it. I wanna run some things by you. Everyone is welcome to reply with their views.
First, Merkel. I don’t like her. I think that she has been very good at holding on to her job. There were many times when I thought she was history and, yet, there she is. Do you think she will manage to hang in there one more time? Will she fire the Interior minister or will he close the borders to refugees?
Second, Italy. What do you think about the new Italian leadership. I know that LN and M5S joined forces. They are from opposite ends of the political spectrum, have strong differences and important commonalities. Will this LN-5S union last?
Third, Brexit. I think that if the forces trying to cancel Brexit fail, as I think they will, we will have a hard Brexit with no agreements of any kind between the EU and UK. What do you think will happen? Soft Brexit, no Brexit, hard Brexit?