Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis?
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#2Not long ago, India was known as a land with lush rainforests.
By some counts Sanskrit has over a hundred words for water.
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#3The article doesn't contain a lot of hard data, but if this is a long-term consequence of the climate change instead of some unrelated temporary fluctuation, it's really worrying if you think about the size of the population affected.
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#4It reminds me end of The Big Short, about what Michael Burry does now (for those that don't know it's one of the guys that predicted 2008 financial crisis a long time before it happened)
"The small investing he still does is all focused on one commodity: water"
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#5When I was living in Goa there are multiple housing estates built without water provision, often reported in the newspapers. Corruption is rife so nothing ever happens to illegal builders.
This is a place where the environment minister said asbestosis was a western propaganda story and people should keep using asbestos.
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#6Not long ago, India was known as a land with lush rainforests. By some counts Sanskrit has over a hundred words for water.
Do words for snow count as words for water?
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#8A friend of mine was involved in this documentary about a similar situation going on in neighbouring Nepal: https://vimeo.com/115894458. Interesting and sad to see the human side of how unreliable access to such a basic human need, affects life.
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#9When I was living in Goa there are multiple housing estates built without water provision, often reported in the newspapers. Corruption is rife so nothing ever happens to illegal builders. This is a place where the environment minister said asbestosis was a western propaganda story and people should keep using asbestos.
The city of Gurgaon didn't even have a municipal corporation or water until a few years ago, despite boasting a population touching 3M+
All the water was drawn from the ground by pumps. And now that water is expected to run out in 5 years.
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#10The article doesn't contain a lot of hard data, but if this is a long-term consequence of the climate change instead of some unrelated temporary fluctuation, it's really worrying if you think about the size of the population affected.
There is more:
- The effect is combined with most drinkable water source being poluted. - India has the same population than china, but on a much smaller surface. - China invaded Tibet and hence has access to the melting ice directly and basically can decide what to do with the water. - India is a mix of many different cultures, strong social tensions and a high level of poverty. - They got the nuclear weapon.
You can only survice 3 days without water. Losing electricity is the least of their problem right now.
It's very, very dangerous situation, whose effects may ripple through the entire world.