Er. Jaswant Singh Rana
The World Bank has warned that India will face severe water crisis in fifteen years. John Briscoe author of draft country report on India expressed that there is virtually no country in the world that lives with a system as bad as in India. The report further adds that India has no proper water management system in place, its ground water is disappearing and river bodies are turning into make shift sewers. Water is considered as one of the most important elements in this universe to support life and no flora and fauna in this world can survive without it. Despite of knowing the importance of it we are unable to use it judiciously and conserve it cautiously. Rain water harvesting is not a new to our world. In old days Maharajas and kings used to construct huge ponds to store rain water for its use at the time of crisis.
The old concept of rain water harvesting should now be again started and general public be made aware with the concept of constructing small structures for this purpose. The rain water which runs over the surface go as waste and need of the hour is to save even a drop of water because the shortage is not far away which can only be realised when it comes on our head. The water will be so costly which would not be affordable by the rich persons also. According to Centre for Sciences and Environment, the ground water in Delhi is dropping I to 2 metre every year. Water table is regularly falling down. This is now a precious item. Do not talk about diamond it will be costlier a diamond. In connection it will be interesting to go through the articles in some of the newspapers, where the detailed statistics of illegal and legal bore wells functioning in south Delhi and outer Delhi is published. Accordingly in the last couple of years more than one lakh tube wells have been dug in outer Delhi and South Delhi in contrast the ‘DELHI JAL BOARD’ operates just 400 to 500 tube wells, throughout Delhi. These private tube wells operate 10 to 12 hours a day supplying water mostly to construction sites and household where municipal supply is not regular. Thus one can just imagine how much the ground water aquifersis stressed. Therefore the only answer to vexed problem is a successfully executed, properly operated and most economical rain water scheme.
Geographically, the state of Jammu and Kashmir can be divided into four zones: first the semi mountainous plains commonly known as Kandi Belt, second the Shivalik Hills, third the mountainous Kashmir Valley including PirPanchal range and fourth is the Tibetan stretch of Ladakh. Three major river systems throughout the state place it at a very high position in terms of availability of water resources especially for generation of hydroelectricity. These three river systems are Indus and its tributaries passing through mountain of Ladakh, Jhelum and Kishanganga system passing through Kashmir Valley and Chenab and its tributaries across Jammu region.
In future the main points which shall be discussed shall be mainly on:
* Availability of fresh water in the planet in prehistoric age.
* Depletion with modernization and industrialisation.
* Global warming and receding of glaciers.
* Awareness about water conservation globally.
* Population explosion.
And then the solutions shall be discussed such as Rain harvesting, water recycling, water treatment schemes and preservation of water sheds.
I shall be writing on this particular thing in future also and request the readers to read the lines with keen interest and impart the education regarding rain water harvesting to each and every one who comes to your contact daily. I will be publishing it with diagrams also. Government should install water meters as early as possible.
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