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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“Where data is available, it is often unreliable due to the use of outdated collection techniques and methodologies,” according to the report.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"
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 8:58 pm
“.Do it for the twins, man!”
No doubt that the twins have more to say to their teachers about their old man, than how much they enjoy camping out in the barn when they come over for a visit.
Children are usually brutally honest.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 8:59 pm
Madkat
The world economy has been contracting for four decades..When the oil starts to run out its game over..And China will be hit the hardest because they import the most oil..Duh..
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa
Soon the tide will go out and well see who is wearing their bathing suit..
LMFAO!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:05 pm
Macron scolds teen for asking ‘How’s it going, Manu?’
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-macron-boy/macron-scolds-teen-for-asking-hows-it-going-manu-idUSKBN1JE247
Fuck you Manu! Pick a side already you dumb centrist..You can’t afford to be neutral on a moving train!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:29 pm
ANOTHER Tesla suspension snaps apart
https://twitter.com/jibsnyc/status/1008547221653028864
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:31 pm
Seems to be a posting problem…? Test.
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:34 pm
MM If you are correct, how did China push the EU from 2nd to 3rd place in GDP?
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:38 pm
some more numbers to consider… http://statisticstimes.com/economy/countries-by-projected-gdp.php
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:40 pm
Yep! The site blocked my second post with another ref. Police State? LMAO
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:42 pm
“World GDP Ranking 2017 by country Data and Charts”
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:44 pm
“The world economy has been contracting for four decades.”
Our economies here in North America have been contracting since the 70s MM. The same is not true for much of Asia. Their economies have been booming.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:50 pm
Madkat is going full blown tin foil! Nobody is blocking the site..It is likely is a problem with the cookies on the site..I have had the same thing happen before..You are just a paranoid loon! Calm down..
LMFAO!
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:54 pm
Using exclamation marks at the end of sentences doesn’t exactly exude calmness MM. Just sayin.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:54 pm
Greg
You assuming the numbers coming out of Asia are accurate..That is a big assumption..I just read a study done at the university of Chicago that argued China and Russia have been fudging their numbers..And China admitted it a few years ago, and promised to clean it up..it wasn’t the government it was local provinces that were fudging their numbers..Either way..Without the OECD there is no global economy and china would lose all of their customers..
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 9:58 pm
Greg
Do you have to critique everything I say? I know you stalk me on other blogs..Geez you are a creep..You give me the shivers!
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:04 pm
China has 1.4 billion people MM, and while our middle classes are being wiped out, their’s continues to grow. And if not for Chinese growth, our economies already would have collapsed a long time ago.
And also MM, Chinese culture has been around for around 5000 years, ours has only been around for a few hundred, not that the drive shop consume lifestyle should really even be considered a culture.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:07 pm
“Do you have to critique everything I say? I know you stalk me on other blogs..Geez you are a creep..You give me the shivers!”
I don’t even look at any other blogs MM. Purely delusional on your part. And if you don’t appreciate the criticism, you are more than free to post an intelligent rebuttal.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:11 pm
And MM,
Posting links to other peoples’ works, that don’t support your conclusions, is not intelligent.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:13 pm
Greg
You called me out by my handle “baby doomer” on gails blog just the other day..You lie about everything..Even stupid shit..
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:14 pm
How you treat other people is a reflection on how you feel inside..
-Mastermind
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:18 pm
“Greg
You called me out by my handle “baby doomer” on gails blog just the other day….You lie about everything.”
Marmico pointed out to everyone here that you spam Gail’s blog with you idiotic nonsense as well.
It really shouldn’t take a degree in chemicals to figure something as simple as that out MM.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:25 pm
“How you treat other people is a reflection on how you feel inside..”
– minuscule mind
You might want to take a step back and think about how obnoxious you’ve been to everyone here mm. People don’t appreciate hearing idiots like yourself go on incessantly about how their wives vaginas need to be shaved, or that their daughters are going to be raped by gangs of goons.
You aren’t smart dude, you are a seriously deranged asshole.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:48 pm
Greg
If I was spamming Gail could block me..Its her blog not yours or that stupid troll mormico..And the fact that people stalk me on other blogs..Should tell you everything you need to know..
And once again i make a quote and two seconds late you are critiquing it..You are a sad and pathetic loser..Must be lonely living out in the woods..
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:49 pm
“Without the OECD there is no global economy and china would lose all of their customers..”
Such stupid, Amerocentric bullshit!
“Global GDP is projected to rise by close to 4% in 2018 and 2019, while growth in the OECD area is set to remain around 2½ per cent per annum. … Economy : Developing countries set to account for nearly 60% of world GDP by 2030, according to new estimates. According to Perspectives on Global Development: Shifting Wealth, a new publication from the OECD Development Centre, the economic and financial crisis is accelerating this longer-term structural transformation in the global economy. Longer-term forecasts suggest that today’s developing and emerging countries are likely to account for nearly 60% of world GDP by 2030.”
https://data.oecd.org/
Maybe you should move to Luxembourg?
“At the other end of the spectrum, Luxembourg, the most productive country, has an average workweek of just 29 hours.”
But not Mexico… ” Mexico—the least productive of the 38 countries listed in 2015 data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—has the world’s longest average work week at 41.2 hours.”
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:50 pm
Weak pay growth puzzles Fed chief, just like everyone else
https://apnews.com/93e2f70362134b4f9e4d668ba538de46
They know they have nothing to lose in faking the employment numbers, since by the time everyone figures out what is going on..The economy will have collapsed, and everyone will have much bigger issues to deal with..
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:51 pm
“MM doesn’t have an original though in his empty head. Just irrelevant quotes or peer reviewed bullshit. Oh, and Davy level putdowns.” lol
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:53 pm
Madkat
Do you think the global economy could survive without 40 percent of it? And we won’t be alive by 2030 because we are going to run out oil in a few years which will cause a global economic collapse..
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 10:55 pm
“Should tell you everything you need to know..”
Yep! They recognize your bullshit for what it is. All of your claims to intelligence and education falls apart when you open your mouth. You and Davy don’t seem to understand tat fact. Maturity is not evidenced by childish putdowns and pre-teen fascination with gore.
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:00 pm
MM, the global economy is going to survive on less than 40% of today’s numbers because they are all fake and when the SHTF, ALL luxuries, and other unnecessary junk, will disappear. The real “needs”of the world are less than 40% of today’s “economies”. Needs: Food, shelter, clothing. Nothing else. The world before FFs.
The Us will have to live on it’s <4% of the world's resources, not the ~24% it currently consumes/wastes. You have the biggest fall and the most pain. Not me.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:08 pm
“And we won’t be alive by 2030 because we are going to run out oil in a few years which will cause a global economic collapse..”
You won’t be alive MM, because you have already told everyone that you plan on committing suicide. The most dire of your links show ~4 billion people on this planet by 2100. I personally do not agree with that, and in my view that would be far too optimistic.
The worst thing that could happen at this point in time, for the long term survivability of the human race, is for modern industrial societies not to collapse. Yet you continue to preach, ad nauseum, and in complete disagreement with all of the links that you continue to post, that the collapse of societies that are destroying the one and only planet that human beings will ever have to call home, is a bad thing.
You MM, are an idiot. No amount of regurgitating other people’s experiences will ever change that fact, even if it did put you $100,000 into debt. Which was also extremely stupid on your part.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:40 pm
Greg and Madkat
You better watch out for those black helicopters! TPB may not want you to reveal ‘the truth’ to others..
LMFAO!
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:42 pm
“You better watch out for those black helicopters! ”
What black helicopters MM? Or simply more of your usual paranoid delusions?
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:51 pm
MM is scared shitless and doesn’t know whether to off himself or try for a good future in a less affluent/controlled country. Time is running out for the Us and I think he sees it. But, he wants to project a zombie/cannibal world, not reality. It would be his excuse to opt out.
The world is going to decline, but, barring a nuclear exchange, it will be slow and painful for those with the most to lose. Maybe years of sliding into the world others already inhabit i.e. living by your sweat and skills, not privileges.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:51 pm
Syria Combat Testing Reveals Russia’s New Tank Drone Is Junk
https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/syria-combat-testing-reveals-russias-new-tank-drone-junk/ri23844?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Russia can’t even build a proper tank! LMFAO! They are going to be crushed like a paper bag soon!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:53 pm
Madkat
Do you have a source to support your claims?
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:55 pm
“Russia can’t even build a proper tank! LMFAO! They are going to be crushed like a paper bag soon!”
The article is about a drone MM.
GregT on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:58 pm
“Do you have a source to support your claims?”
Do you have a source that supports yours MM?
If so, please provide a link to that source with direct quotes.
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:59 pm
Maybe you should think again Muddymind.
https://taskandpurpose.com/why-russias-new-tanks-are-a-wake-up-call-for-the-us/
Maybe you should stop reading Us propaganda?
MASTERMIND on Mon, 18th Jun 2018 11:59 pm
‘Peak Oil’ and the German Government
Military Study Warns of a Potentially Drastic Oil Crisis
The team of authors, led by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Will, uses sometimes-dramatic language to depict the consequences of an irreversible depletion of raw materials. It warns of shifts in the global balance of power, of the formation of new relationships based on interdependency, of a decline in importance of the western industrial nations, of the “total collapse of the markets” and of serious political and economic crises.
The study, whose authenticity was confirmed to SPIEGEL ONLINE by sources in government circles, was not meant for publication.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/peak-oil-and-the-german-government-military-study-warns-of-a-potentially-drastic-oil-crisis-a-715138.html
See Madkat, that is how you argue with reason..Get ready for a total collapse..Hope you don’t poop your diaper! You can always just use your right hand like Muslims do in your country! They will show ya!
LMFAO!
MASTERMIND on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:03 am
Greg
HSBC Global Bank: 81% of world liquids production already in decline and world oil shortages ahead
https://www.scribd.com/document/367688629/HSBC-Peak-Oil-Report-2017
I emailed Professor Douglas B Reynolds PhD, Oil and Energy Economics, University of Alaska.
http://uaf.edu/files/som/REYNOLDS-Doug-2016-CV.pdf
And I asked him if our upcoming oil shortage will cause a global economic collapse?
https://imgur.com/a/rBtIrfg
He replied;
“Yes, it will be like that, but may be worse with other extenuating circumstances such as war or the decline of international trade. Hyperinflation as happened in the Soviet and Post Soviet economy is a certainty.”
https://imgur.com/a/rktmHdt
Makati1 on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:06 am
Mm, I read that “study” years ago. (September 01, 2010)
Irrelavent today. Did you forget the fraking boom in the Us that happened since then? The changes in who recovers tyhe most oil today? And the ever extending “peak” predicted?
Obviously you did. Old “studies” are just that, history, not a good basis for current debate.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:10 am
NASA Peer Reviewed Study (Motesharrei, 2014)
“closely reflecting the reality of the world today… we find that collapse is difficult to avoid.”
“with a larger depletion rate, the decline of the Commoners occurs faster, while the Elites are still thriving, but eventually the Commoners collapse completely, followed by the Elites.”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615
Makati1 on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:11 am
MM, One person’s opinion does not make it a fact, just his opinion. And that opinion depends on his pay $ource. Degrees impress only those who have one, not the thinking crowd that sees the bullshit and brainwashing.
Makati1 on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:13 am
NASA! LMAO! They haven’t done anything original since they sent (maybe) a man to the moon with German tech. They cannot even send a person to the space station today without hitching a ride with the Russians. And you believe their bullshit?
MASTERMIND on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:14 am
Madkat
Fracking in one country can’t make up for all the world declining conventional fields on its own..See the HSBC study which addresses that point exactly..
HSBC Global Bank: 81% of world liquids production already in decline and world oil shortages ahead
https://www.scribd.com/document/367688629/HSBC-Peak-Oil-Report-2017
Chevron CEO warns US shale oil alone cannot meet the world’s growing demand for crude
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/01/us-shale-cannot-meet-the-worlds-growing-oil-demand-chevron-ceo-warns.html
You are grasping for excuses because you know you are soon going to turn into zombie food..
MASTERMIND on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:15 am
Madkat
NASA just came up with the idea for the study and payed for some of its funding..it was authored by one of America’s top applied mathematicians.
GregT on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:18 am
You appear to have an awfully thick skull MM, any relations. LOL
I have already explained to you multiple times before, that I agree with much of the findings in those reports.
What I don’t agree with, and neither do any of the reports that you continue to link, is your assertion that the collapse of MIS equates to a human mass extinction event. The reality of the matter is, MIS is destroying the natural environment. Human beings have, can, and will survive without economies of scale. They will not however, survive without a healthy natural environment.
GregT on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:25 am
“You are grasping for excuses because you know you are soon going to turn into zombie food..”
Zombies aren’t real MM. Stop watching so much television, it isn’t good for cognizant brain development.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:28 am
Ann Coulter calls children separated from families at border “child actors” and begs Trump: “Don’t fall for the actor children”
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/18/ann-coulter-calls-children-separated-families-border-child-actors-and-begs-trump-dont-fall-actor/220465
Holy shit! This whole country is turning into tin foil hat whack jobs.. I thought they only hung out at peakoil.com..lOL
GregT on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:32 am
Ann Coulter is the epitome of American exceptionalism MM. It’s really difficult for me to comprehend why people actually even listen to her.
GregT on Tue, 19th Jun 2018 12:43 am
“Fracking in one country can’t make up for all the world declining conventional fields on its own.”
So far, the entire world isn’t relying on fracking MM, only the U.S. is.