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.

6. CAUSES
1. OVERUSE OF WATER

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

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

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

10. EFFECTS

12. 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.

13. 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

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

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Presented By:
Chhavi Kumawat