World Water Day on Wednesday, the 24th May.
This year, the UN has chosen a valid theme - wastewater.
NEWS
World Water Day: PM Narendra Modi exhorts people to save water
According
to a Unicef report released on the occasion, by 2040 nearly 600 million
children, one in every four worldwide, will live in areas with
extremely limited water resources.
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India uses up more groundwater than US & China
Take
rainwater for instance. Just 18% of rainwater is used effectively while
48% enters the river systems, most of which just flows into the ocean,
according to Narayan Hegde, a water expert with the BAIF Research
Development Foundation.
“Farm
ponds, percolation tanks, water reservoirs and small and medium-sized
dams can help retain more sur face water while increasing the
groundwater recharge,“ he told TOI.
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Centre warns of water shortage
Maharashtra,
Telangana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal
Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh are identified as vulnerable
states as some of them are in arid and semi-arid zones, receive spatial
rains, and have low water storage in reservoirs, or are seeing a decline
in the water tables. In 2016-17, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry suffered agricultural drought.
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