Scarcity of Drinking Water/Ground Water in India Effects Directly on Woman’s Lifestyle

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According to World Bank, within 2020 all the big cities groundwater in India is dried up. However, the water demands at 2020 in India double. Today for every three Indians, one Indians face water scarcity problem. This scarcity effects directly on the woman’s lifestyle.
For the search of food and water nearly from all the villages of Utter Pradesh & Madhya Pradesh lakh of people, especially men are moved to other places annually. In addition, the family of the men less, woman suffered badly.

Is Building Dams really Conserve our Nature

           

In a world which has become increasingly hungry for natural resources with consumer driven life styles & exploitative technology, river basins are merely seen as a stock & puddle of large dams to tap & exploit water capital have been tried since Bhakra Nagal, which is more than exposed now.

                          Not less than RS 70,000 crore has been spent on large & medium dams before 1990. In spite of 4,600 large Dams have been built across the country, not more than 6-15% of agricultural land in each state is irrigated by these projects. Neither the drinking water crisis nor the flood problem has been resolved. Moreover, almost RS1 lakh crore, officially spent during 1991-2004, has not added an acre of net irrigated area through surface channels.

Scarcity of Drinking water/Ground water in India affects directly on women health

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There is a common phrase among the woman’s in the villages of Bundilkhand at Madhya Pradesh “let the husband die, but concentrate on the water pot, which should not be broken by falling from head”. This phrase prove that how the woman’s from the villages of India work hard for collecting drinking water for the sake of their family from inaccessible area. In this area, from many years no rain have been fallen & the farming land is dried up totally. The farmer whose main source of leaving is farming forced to take credit from richer people mortgaging his land, wife, and children on greater rate of interest. When he fails to repay the money, the richer people sell farmer’s wife & girl to the red light area.
In India 90% of ground water are used for irrigation purpose. In addition, with respect to this NASA warned, that the groundwater level of north India fall drastically. The condition of groundwater at Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan are worsening with time. According to Central Ground Water Board the ground water level at north India along with Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam, Orissa & the plain land/Gangetic West Bengal decreases uncontrollably.

Scarcity of Drinking water/Ground water in India affects directly on women health

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  A latest survey revealed that, women in the villages of Rajasthan, India averagely walk 14000 KM annually in search of water. In city, compare to village woman do not have to walk such a distance but they have to stand in a long queue from midnight or in the early of the morning in front of water taps on the streets for drinking water.

                          In India, only woman & little children collect water that is used for drinking & washing purpose. No other family member interfere or help for this searching seven collecting process, but they use this water sometime more than the woman who works so hard to collect this. This water collecting pressure effects on woman work, neither they able to do some other work nor the little girl able to go to school & learn the education.

             By the help of UNECEF, Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission survey reveal that, in India the water demands 66.6% for household purpose is supply by woman aged from 15-35 yrs. In India, only to search & collect drinking water woman loss their 15 crore working hrs. Annually, which costs near about RS 1000 crore.    

CANCUN SPECIAL

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There are a few reasons for the lowered expectations around Cancun. Firstly, climate change legislation is still pending in the world. What is also uncertain is whether the country will go in for a cap-&-trade scheme for carbon (wherein carbon-emission limits are set & around which a trading mechanism is created). Any new deal has to have the US on board.

Second, Europe has problem of its own, in particular, the economic crisis that has overtaken countries such as Greece. As a result, European governments have already begun cutting their budgets. It, however, remains to be seen how the budgets cuts influences climate change funding.

However, a Geneva-based social scientist believes climate change is not the “HOT POTATO” it used to be before the current crisis. Now, Europeans are more worried about pensions & monies for education.

In addition, deep divisions remain between the developed & developing worlds. Both sides are refusing to budget on their emission reduction plans. For instance, china & India, the new big polluters, will not agree to absolute emission targets & the US does not want to go beyond its modest plan to cut greenhouse gases.

The key to a global deal depends on how best these & other differences cure going to resolved.