Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020
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#2More context on this: https://twitter.com/jslaternyc/status/1144483586042548225
Re: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020
#3More context on this: https://twitter.com/jslaternyc/status/1144483586042548225
Thanks for this tweet link I was going to forward this in WhatsApp to my family but decided not to after reading these tweets.
Re: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020
#4I 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://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/19/m...
Granted, redrawing the map based on watershed doesn't solve India's problem. But, it sounds like that in the future their drinking water is going to come from careful management of groundwater, which will require a lot of state level agreements. Right now, I'm not optimistic those agreements will happen smoothly.
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#5India does not have a water issue, they have a population issue, but it’s really hard to mange the population, so natural resources are being consumed beyond sustainability.
This problem is not confined to India, it’s a problem with humanity. Nature is working on a correction.
Re: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020
#6India does not have a water issue, they have a population issue, but it’s really hard to mange the population, so natural resources are being consumed beyond sustainability. This problem is not confined to India, it’s a problem with humanity. Nature is working on a correction.
This is one point of view.
You could also say that resources of India had been depleted by greed, overexploatation and the lack of proper governanace. You can't run a multimilion city on borewells and groundwater - the government should had built proper infrastructure - pipelines, reservoirs, water meters, sewage treatment plans etc.
In a way India is a minature to the entire world.
Re: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020
#7I 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:…
> Granted, redrawing the map based on watershed doesn't solve India's problem
Thats a recipe for political disaster. Identity based politics is the only paradigm of politics in India. Currently southern states in India are organised on linguistic identity and every now and then there are statements from main-stream politicians calling for secession and establishing a separate country to counter the influx for North Indians who are painted as separate racial and ethnic group by these politicians. Breaking up existing units of governance organised on the linguistic identity will add fuel to the fire of separatism and powers like China and Pakistan will be more than happy to assist the separatists movement that starts because of this stupidity. BTW this is the wet dream of Pakistan and China as to India's future. Be noted the human cost a separatist movement will cause. India's bulk of fighting forces is made up by youths from north India. Do this and we have a Syria or Bangladesh with a scale of 1 billion plus people.
Re: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020
#8India does not have a water issue, they have a population issue, but it’s really hard to mange the population, so natural resources are being consumed beyond sustainability. This problem is not confined to India, it’s a problem with humanity. Nature is working on a correction.
I beg to differ, India's population density is comparable to many Western European countries. They a problem of population distribution. Like many developing nations, populations cluster in large cities leading to pressures on resources.
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#9India does not have a water issue, they have a population issue, but it’s really hard to mange the population, so natural resources are being consumed beyond sustainability. This problem is not confined to India, it’s a problem with humanity. Nature is working on a correction.
I suppose it's more of the density than the population. India is massive by all measurements, but west and east sides are completely different. In the west, you have Mumbai, a city full of dust, slums, and millions of people riding trains in a single evening, all fighting for resources.
East side, is full of greenery, rainforest, and a peaceful living with hardly any population compared to west.
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#10Is there a way to limit the size of these big cities?
What if they start requiring a domestic visa process to let in the people from other states?
Everyone wants a life of high standards of living which cities provide along with employment.
If we do not limit the number of people who can get in, it will naturally result in whole population of India moving into these cities.
This will result in people making wherever they live better instead of just moving to a better city.