Water Crisis in India

Water is life. We cannot live without water. It is one of the most serious problems in the world at present. We know there are so many causes of water crisis. They are: 

• Climate change.
• Natural calamities such as droughts and floods.
• Increased human consumption.
• Overuse and wastage of water.
• A global rise in freshwater demand.
• Overuse of aquifers and its consequent slow recharge.

• Summer has just started. Day by day the temperature is rising  and water crisis  has also surged as well.  In many places of India there have water crisis. At first I will talk about water crisis in south India. There is only enough water to fill 23% of the holding capacity in all South India’s reservoirs, The Hindu reported last week based on an analysis of Central Water Commission data. This, according to the analysis, is nice percentage points lower than the rolling decadal average, speaking to the certainty and the magnitude of the impending crisis. South India faced a summertime water crisis in 2017. The crisis in the same region this year is poised to be different, and worse, for a few reasons. First the monsoons are influenced by various factors: of these, EI Nino events render them more erratic, even if isolating their influence thus is a simplification. There was an EI Nino event in 2024-16 whereas this time there is an ongoing event and among the five strongest such events in recorded history. Second, after meteorologists recorded 2023 to be the warmest year on record, they also said they expected 2024 to be worse. A team led by the U.K Meteorological Office also predicted a 93% chance that every year until 2026 will be a record-breaker. Third, millions in India will be spending some additional time outdoors this summer to cast their votes in the general election. Fourth, this crisis has happened before; yet while (some) policies and forecasting have improved, preparedness and implementation of these policies on the ground have not. Other factors, including unplanned urban growth, over-extraction of groundwater, low water reuse efficiency, insufficient community involvement, and encroachment and degradation of catchment areas persist. We know climate change is exacerbating both water scarcity and water-related hazards. Moreover a lack of investment in infrastructure and technology to draw water from rivers, aquifers, other water sources in insufficient human capacity to meet the demand for water.