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Re: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020

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Post by rishav_sharan » Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 6:32 AM UTC

chewz wrote: post #64

rishav_sharan wrote: post #41

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Let me give the PoV from Hyderabad. Hyderabad gets water from mainly 3 sources; 1. Musi river water/Manjeera 2. the Large lakes like Hussain/Osmania Sagar etc. 3. ground water/borewells My apartment society in Gachibowli area, just ran of water for a few days back in June. The borewell just couldnt get the water. There is no lake around us. Getting the river water connection would be around Rs.15_00_0000. To add to t…

> Right now several apartment societies with 3000+ apartments in them are coming up in my immediate neighbourhood. So next year, we can expect the borewell water to be over way before june (early may?). Do you mean that a permit had been given to developement project without providing adequate water supply first? And it will depend on borewells? > Rain water harvesting doesnt works greatly in areas like ours which on…

Governance and public apathy are always a big issue in India. And with the sheer speed of growth, it would be a struggle for even a gov with the political will to make meaningful changes.

Regarding you question on giving permits without providing adequate water supply, that's how it is in Indian metropolitans.

Re: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020

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Post by ecmascript » Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 7:34 AM UTC

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #67

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Well, not all discourse needs to happen on twitter. Sure, it is nice when there is something you can actually convey in just a few sentences but I have a hard time reading this. It is hard to follow because my reading gets interrupted, and I need to focus on where I am instead of what information I am receiving. I donno. I just think it's hard and it's very annoying so I'm rather inclined to stop reading because hone…

A tweet thread is also often meant to be chewed upon. Because minimal details are provided with the expectation that the reader will be able to fill in some of the obvious blanks with a little thought. So I usually read these threads a tweet at a time, wondering on the implications of each statement (a lot of times I can't think of any). But whatever works for you.

I rarely read tweet threads, mainly because I am rarely on twitter but also because there is often little reason to. Most of the threads is simply just angry people who disagree or people that agree and want to spread the word.

Re: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020

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Post by jdonaldson » Wed, Jul 03, 2019, 6:25 AM UTC

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I always thought watersheds were a great way of defining state-level regions. They're more stable than boundaries set by rivers, and are more natural than arbitrary lines of latitude/longitude. In the (near) future, there's going to be a lot of hand wringing over who has what rights to which water. The only way to completely solve it is to have one region be in control of the entire course of the water's flow. https:…

Watersheds may be a little too large to work well as administrative regions.

Here's the watershed basins and sub-basins for India, which looked reasonable to me at a glance : https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/river-basin-and-su...

Re: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020

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Post by jdonaldson » Wed, Jul 03, 2019, 6:34 AM UTC

krageon wrote: post #25

jdonaldson wrote: post #4

I always thought watersheds were a great way of defining state-level regions. They're more stable than boundaries set by rivers, and are more natural than arbitrary lines of latitude/longitude. In the (near) future, there's going to be a lot of hand wringing over who has what rights to which water. The only way to completely solve it is to have one region be in control of the entire course of the water's flow. https:…

Let's take a moment and remember that a lot of the bad aspects of what happened to India after the brits left was because they divided up the country and then washed their hands in innocence. Now you propose to do it again. Why? It did not work well last time, and somehow you imagine dividing it along the lines of a single relatively minor (as in it's eminently solvable, not because it has little impact) problem that…

FWIW, this isn't something I'm advocating for India alone. We're running out of water all over the world : https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/slideshows/10-cities-most...