Wastewater has great potential to address water shortage and bring solutions to India’s water crisis. Explain (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 2 years
KEY POINTS
· A report released in 2020 by the technical group on population projections constituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare indicates that India’s population is expected to touch 1.52 billion by 2036.
· The distribution of water in India’s cities is based on rainfall. We monitor the level of water in our reservoirs/dams and adjust our distribution accordingly.
· Residential apartment complexes generate anywhere between 30,000 litres and 3 lakh litres of wastewater everyday. Currently, only a small percentage of this wastewater is getting used and the rest goes into our lakes and rivers.
· However, in spite of recycling it in-house, they are unable to obtain high quality water due to the operational efficiency of wastewater plants.
· This should be enabled with a central dashboard with real-time water quality monitoring centres across the city’s working IPR implementations. Just like how areas have air quality monitoring, there can be water quality dashboards displayed in public places.
· A report by NITI Aayog indicates that nearly 600 million people in India are facing high to extreme water stress. The same report states that India ranks 120th out of 122 countries in terms of water quality, with roughly 70 per cent of the water being contaminated.
Harshitha G 2 years
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Try to include more points on how waste water can be used for addressing the issue of water shortage
Manish 2 years
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Rekha 2 years
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Try to include some specific examples like India - Israel MoU on water management, concept of reverse osmosis. Keep Writing.
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