Education on Water Scarcity and Sustainability of Water-Supply

It is well established that water, air and soil constitute the very basic life resource affording life and living to the living beings on earth. The earliest literature of Vedas expresses the vivid discussion on significance of life resources and need to conserve them for the survival of living beings. Human experience has found that any neglect of key life resources may lead to disappearance of life resources or pollution in resources reducing them to state of unusable. Water is most essential for civilised form of life. Continuous pollution of water is likely to eliminate the possibility of disease less healthy life of living beings. The growing levels of industrialisation, scientific experiments, armament, global navel transport, large-scale emission of carbon oxide, war-fare, rapid population growth, etc., have pushed up pollution of water resources. Development programs and mixing pollutants and individual effluents in rivers, lakes, ponds, water streams, ground water reserves, etc., have reduced the quality of water available for human consumption. Sustainability of human civilisation may be at enormous risk if adequate steps are not undertaken to save water from pollution at global level. Education, alertness and water quality consciousness can help safeguards for improvement in quality of water and proper quantity of potable water.