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Keep Clean Water Sources For Watery Future
- Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh
Writer, Author & Social Activist
Blogger - "Climate Diary Of Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh"
*Just think what will happen to us if we do not get drinking water? Then even if we get water and it is polluted then what will happen to us? There are many people in our country who have to face difficulties to get drinking water. There are many people who do not get clean drinking water and they along with their families keep on battling with various serious diseases. Water, and that too clean water, is very important for our life. Knowing this, don't know why we became careless. We dirty up or plug up our old wells. After drying up the old stepwells, buildings were erected on that land. Big ponds were made smaller and small ponds dried up and settled on that land too, as if buildings are needed more than water.*
Those whose homes get drinking water through taps, they cannot understand the problems of those who have to walk 1-2 kilometers or stand in long queues to get drinking water and wait for their turn. To make the filtered water coming from the tap more cleaner, RO etc. water cleaners are used. Whereas the person who gets a bucket of water while standing in a long line does not even knows that how clean is the water he has got with great effort? Same condition of those who bring water from those water sources which are no longer clean. For such helpless people, the availability of water is important, not its cleanliness, because they know that dirty water may give them disease but will save them from dying of thirst.
It is a truth that we have no lots of sources of drinking water. In total 71% of the Earth's surface is covered in water. Of this, 97% is salt water and only 3% is fresh water. We are taught this thing in schools since childhood, but as soon as we mature, we forget this important thing by drowning in our selfishness.
I myself have seen three big old wells dried up and houses built on them. Of course those wells were on someone's private land but should anyone have private rights over the source of water? The owners of those wells should have got their houses designed in such a way that their houses would have been built and the wells would have been saved. But alas they did not understand the importance of wells. The government colony where I spent my childhood also had two old wells. Both were big wells of the era of kings. They were always filled to the brim with clean water. The people around him also used to take water from them. A few years ago I got the opportunity to visit that colony once again. I was shocked to see that both the wells were in bad condition. The water was dirty. Both those wells were slowly dying. Destroying water sources like this is just like cutting the branch on which we are sitting.
For some time 'Save Water Sources Campaign' was run. I was also involved in that. I also contributed in cleaning the old wells and step wells. But we could save only a few water sources. We had access only to public water sources. Water sources located on private land were dried up by their owners. We could only explain to them, but by the law could not take any action.
According to the latest report of the United Nations, 26% of the world's people do not have access to clean water. 46% of the world's people do not get water for sanitation. At the same time, 200 crore people face water shortage for one month in a year. The number of people who are currently struggling with water scarcity in the world, soon that figure will also increase. Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene is the most basic human need for health and life. Demand for water is rising owing to rapid population growth, urbanization and increasing water needs from agriculture, industry, and energy sectors. Decades of misuse, poor management, over extraction of groundwater and contamination of freshwater supplies has exacerbated water stress. In addition, countries are facing growing challenges linked to degraded water-related ecosystems, water scarcity caused by climate change, underinvestment in water and sanitation and insufficient cooperation on transboundary water. To reach universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030, the current rates of progress would need to increase fourfold. Achieving these targets would save 829,000 people annually, who die from diseases directly attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene practices.
India is battling a double whammy in terms of drinking water. On one hand the water crisis is increasing in the country and on the other hand water is being wasted in the process of cleaning the water. In July 2020, NGT took tough decisions with the aim of stopping the wastage of water due to RO. National Green Tribunal (NGT) NGT had directed the Ministry of Environment to ban the use of RO in places where the amount of TDS in water (TDS) is less than 500 mg per liter and people People should also be made aware of the disadvantages of dematerialized water. It is clear from the decision of the court that RO is also causing wastage of water and after that there is a danger of minerals coming out of the clean water that you are getting, that is, that water seems clean to you, but this water should be healthy for you, it is not necessary because it is also necessary to keep the RO machine clean at all times.
A report named Global Water Security 2023 Assessment is going on, in which a serious water crisis has been pointed out in the coming times. In this report, the water security of 33 countries of three different geographical regions has been assessed. And it has been told that where there is a huge shortage of water and where the condition of water is good. The report states that three out of four people currently live in water-insecure countries. These countries include Solomon Islands, Sudan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, including Pakistan. The condition of Somalia, Liberia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Libya, Madagascar, South Sudan, Micronesia, Niger, Sierra Leone, Yemen, Chad, Comoros and Sri Lanka is also not good. Our country is also not away from this grave crisis.
It is best that we save our water sources and keep them clean because there is nothing better than natural clean water. If the water sources are clean then they will always be there and we will always get clean drinking water. There is still time to wake up and understand the coming water crisis. Save your future life by saving water sources.
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(28.05.2023)
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