India could soon have ‘water refugees,’ warns top expert

[Rupeshkumar]

No we haven't done anything we just unfortunately happens to be on equator.

Are you sure about it? Just try to google about it. I dont know if i am allowed to post links here. From what i read " Every year, Pakistan loses almost 27000 hectares of natural forest area".

 

[Sine Nomine]

Which country hasn't thats the question! We all have done our part of damage to the climate.

They don't have that much population and tech backwardnesa either.
In S.A God forbid if a huge drought hits us,politicians would be fighting among themselves and common public would be dying.

 

[Haris Ali2140]

Are you sure about it? Just try to google about it. I dont know if i am allowed to post links here. From what i read " Every year, Pakistan loses almost 27000 hectares of natural forest area".

I am talking about the sub continent which is on the receiving end of global warming while most the CO2 was actually churned out by the West.

 

[Rupeshkumar]

This population explosion has really damaged the entire region. Deforestation has been on very rapid pace. Britishers also did not help it!

 

[OIO]

I still remember there used to rains continuously for weeks when i was a child. now its totally different. Nowhere near those level of rains...

There are more rains in northwest China recent years.

 

[Type59]

Water is going to be the biggest problem in sub-continent in the years to come. Luckily we have build quite good number of Dams etc. And the river linking project will hopefully stop the situation from going worse...



Whats the water situation is like in Pakistan?

Why are there shortages since you claim many dams have been built? River linking will not happen, the opposition will be too great.

 

[Rupeshkumar]

Why are there shortages since you claim many dams have been built? River linking will not happen, the opposition will be too great.

Yes many dams have been built and many more needed. Then people need to use their brain and stop wasting water. Then we need to make sure that rain water reaches the channels under earth as in metro cities hardly any water goes under earth due to concrete.

Let's see what happens to river linking. As a test project linking of Krishna and godavari has already been done (using pipes)...

Why are there shortages since you claim many dams have been built? River linking will not happen, the opposition will be too great.

 

[Kabira]

Water is going to be the biggest problem in sub-continent in the years to come. Luckily we have build quite good number of Dams etc. And the river linking project will hopefully stop the situation from going worse...



Whats the water situation is like in Pakistan?

Not good. Army dictator sold 3 eastern rivers to India in 1960. Like not even secured minimum amount so all they get is water from floods.

Meanwhile Sindh are against dams on western rivers because they rather save some useless land in delta.

 

[[Bregs]]

Water conservation is must and wastage needs to be curbed as ts going to be testing future with global warming looming and glaciers melting faster then anticipated before

Rain water conservation is must do along with shifting of regular crop patterns

 

[Rupeshkumar]

Not good. Army dictator sold 3 eastern rivers to India in 1960. Like not even secured minimum amount so all they get is water from floods.

Meanwhile Sindh are against dams on western rivers because they rather save some useless land in delta.

Our government's need to wake up now. Ways must be found to store and use the rain water. Otherwise nobody would need bombs to wipe off the subcontinent.

Not good. Army dictator sold 3 eastern rivers to India in 1960. Like not even secured minimum amount so all they get is water from floods.

Meanwhile Sindh are against dams on western rivers because they rather save some useless land in delta.

The situation with land is same everywhere. Nobody would like to give up on their land. I still remember the media coverage which was given to submerging of tehri town when the lake of tehri dam was being filled for the first time. Still remember the painful experience people went through.

Off topic, the same tehri dam actually saved us from getting more damages during kedarnath tragedy...

 

[Ahmad Bhutta]

These bastard gangus had been stealing pakistans water and their own country dried up even before us

 

[srshkmr]

The situation in India could be quite unique when its flooding in North or in states like Kerala or Karnataka there would be droughts in Tamil Nadu. and when they give excess water to TN. Only a small percentage of the water is utilised and the rest is wasted away by mixing in the ocean.

What India needs as a whole country is more dams, reservoirs, re nourishing ground water supply, cut down the amount of water taken from ground using bore wells. If the underground water level increases I am pretty sure the lakes and ponds will fill in eventually. But i am guessing this will not happen soon.

Modi announced 50B$ to India's water management. Hope the situation improves soon.

 

[rott]

no water ? drink whiskey

I am sure they don't have a problem with that.

 

[Paul2]

Both China and Pakistan are quite watery countries, the problem is water conservation.

See, the dry Northern China used to have both enormous floods on Yellow river, harvest destroying autumn rain floods, and at the same time have severe droughts through the rest of the year.

Damming made the issue much less severe, but not completely solved.

There is no alternative to massive water redirection projects, but that will require the amount of resources I think even China can't allocate.

South-North redirection took 40 years, and barely supplied needs of Beijing area.

But one thing is certain, eventually it will have to be done, and resources committed.