Executive Director, BGS-SGS-SOMA JV, New Delhi, India
Online published on 27 April, 2023.
Climate change is a reality and its impact are being felt all over India. The most impact of it will be on water-resource. It will aggravate flood, cyclone and draught with devastation effect on human life. “Water is life” as defined in Veda; the oldest holy book of ancient India. Its importance and proper use were understood, researched and implemented in urban and rural areas in a most efficiently developed townships and agricultural fields in India more than 5000 years ago. India now have 18% of world population, 4% of renewable water resources and only 2.4% of land area of the world. Also, water availability in India widely-varies with region and time, making the water management a most challenging issue. Major need of water in India is for irrigation, Industries, thermal power, drinking and domestic purpose besides renewable use-in Hydroelectric Power Plants including secondary benefits for navigation and recreation facilities. This-paper will focus on most challenging issues on water management in surface and ground water where-its aggravation on scarcity and flood devastation will impact on human life, identify their short term and-long-term solution based on research and planning by various organisation and individuals.
