FAILURE OF WATER MANAGEMENT IN INDIA
                                           EDITION -1
The fresh water source that needed to meet human needs is easily accessible (as in lakes, rivers & shallow ground water aquifers) constitute less than .3 percent of the total water available on the planet. The availability is highly skewed on the terrestrial surface.

India alone exhausts about 1,000 cubic meters of water per capita per year. With this amount, we have to make do with the satisfaction of domestic needs, food production, industrial activities, pollution control & all the environmental needs of water systems.

Any further decline would be taken as an indication of serious water scarcity. Add to that acute inequity in the country in access to water, than the national level averages conveniently make invisible.

A recent report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) observes, “ever since independence, poor Indians have been promised free, safe, household water”, even after 61 years of independence, more than 300 million Indians do not have access to safe drinking water. Even when they have, as UNDP report says, poor people “still have to pay for their water, sometimes 10-20 times more than their richer neighbors”.