PROBLEM OF ARSENIC IN WEST BENGAL,INDIA

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Arsenic is a heavy metal found in ground water more or less everywhere in India. Arsenic has an adverse effect on human. It affects human nervous system & at last, it causes cancer at skin, lungs, liver. However, we can totally avoid the contamination of arsenic on human body by proper drinking water management & generated awareness about arsenic.

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

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Woman in the Adivashi area of India in the district of West Bengal, Purilia, Bankura, Birhum have to dig the sand at the bank of the river hour after hour for collecting water because their well, pond at the village are dried up totally. They have to walk mile after mile & if they late to return & did not give rice on time in front of their husband, they are beaten badly, sometimes to dead by their “loving” husband.
For water, how many woman in India are out of touch of health, education & basic needs of life are not calculated until date. No ones care at all. In addition, if the calculation started the condition are more worsening as present conditions worsen with increasing time.

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

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Half of the day of the woman in India is lost for searching drinking water in the district of Madhya Pradesh. They walk mile after mile in scorching heat under the sun without talking any precaution for a pot of drinking water. This result poor health condition in woman health & their body response more to the disease, which in turns causes more malnutrition among the children in the villages of India due to the failure of their mother to fed milk & food properly.
With the increase of cultivation of high yielding grain, the scarcity of groundwater increases. The condition worsens not only in the areas where the rain is small but also in the area where generation-by-generation rain are very good. In the villages of West Bengal, where the area are famous for greenish land, innumerable number of girls are out of the school for the purpose of searching drinking water in the middle of their education.

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.