India is running out of water, fast
Indian Blinders is this as bad as the media makes it out to be? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/india-running-water-fast-190620085139572.html
Yes it is, but Modi ji bhakts would have already fixed it
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All major cities are running out of water.
Yes it is bad. There are frequent water and electricity shortages outside of metros, it has always been heavily dependent on monsoon
Worse. Visit Bangalore or Delhi sometime and while the cities may look green, they're living on borrowed water - the population density is causing desertification of the surrounding areas.
So what’s the end game for India? Does it develop into a global power or decay into living hell?
Chennai has had water shortages since the early 1980s. Since then the population of the city has more than doubled. Most of the city’s water still comes from the same 4 reservoirs that were built by the Brits in the early 1900s. Zero urban planning and incompetent governance. What do you expect?
It's indeed bad, but not unfixable. It needs serious efforts both from government and citizens.
Chennai and Bangalore had a number of lakes within the city. This was how our ancestors survived the dry season. Our city leaders have allowed land developers to drain the lakes and build apartment complexes on them. Because there is money to be made. These apartment complexes then flood when the monsoon kicks in. You can’t fight nature. I have very little hope that it’s fixable, you can’t fix stupid.
Reservoir planning is a fixable problem, but it's an expensive problem to fix. India doesn't need to reinvent the wheel for this either. Japanese cities have massive underground open silos which will fill up with millions of gallons of rain water before letting cities flood. This is done on a much smaller scale in my neighborhood's lake also. It's quite fascinating to watch during a thunderstorm really. The water goes where it has always gone, but instead of the water level rising these silos get filled up. Their water level is managed on its own using gravity as well so really it's a one time expense.
The problem is, I didn’t even hear about this before the election. So Indians aren’t concerned about it?
Some years ago I managed a team of about 75 engineers in India. Within a time frame of 18 months, 2 died in traffic accidents, and 1 died from some unknown tropical disease. It was heartbreaking. I think Indians have a lot more to be concerned about.
^I can definitely try to empathize with safety issues - but this seems like an existential issue for that government. We don’t like roadway death or disease in America, but the percentage affected varies greatly between these 3 issues. Just one of them is much more difficult to see
Yes it is as bad as it looks