Water scarcity in india

Description about water scarcity

1. WATER SCARCITY IN INDIA

2. A water crisis is a situation when the supply of water is less than the demand due to non-availability of water or mismanagement of water resources. According to the United Nations Water Development Report 2016, one of the most serious problems the humanity is facing today is the scarcity of potable water for drinking and domestic use. This crisis is feared to worsen dramatically in the coming decade. But we Indians are still not ready to accept the seriousness of the water problem in the country, and the failure of the government machinery to implement an efficient process for the management and utilisation of potable as well as ground water has already caused a major water crisis in India. WHAT IS WATER SCARCITY?

3. Water, water, everywhere. But not a drop to drink! – true to this paradox, this single crisis can hit us the hardest in the near future.

4. SURVEY ..as reported by the states, 308 districts are affected in respect of shortage of drinking water supply in 13 States (Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra,” Union minister of state for drinking water and sanitation Ram Kripal Yadav said while responding to queries on the drinking water crisis and government’s plans to resolve it.

5. CAUSES 1. OVERUSE OF WATER

6. Sponge can soak up and release spilled oil hundreds of times. 2. WATER POLLUTION

7. 3. RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES Hindu pilgrims bathing before dawn in the Ganges river, at the Sangam , during the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India)

8. 4. Climate change Climate change is exacerbating the depletion supply of water .

9. EFFECTS

10. Women in Bombay line up vessels to fill water from a pipe as the delay in the monsoon has resulted in an acute shortage of water. The water supply in the city comes from nearby lakes which depend mainly on the four-month monsoon rains between June and September .

11. A man looks on as he collects items thrown by devotees as religious offerings next to idols of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, after the idols were immersed on Sunday, in the waters of the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India.  Fishermen search for offerings thrown in by worshippers in the polluted waters of the river Sabarmati in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad

12. Women carry pitchers filled with drinking water at Siyani village, about near Ahmedabad.

13. THANK YOU… Presented By: Chhavi Kumawat