Newsletter No. 56;
IRBMS; September, 2016
Protest over Maheswar Project on Narmada
It has been predicted long back that water
becoming
crisis in this century will lead to war. The
UNESCO- IHP report, due to population
era of political battle on fossil fuel energy is
growth, per capita water availability in
slowly giving away its position to water. In
developed countries was 40 % lower in 1995
India, Tamilnadu and Karnataka are fighting
than in 1950, while in developing countries
over Cauvery water, India is rethinking its
with an arid climate water availability had
Indus water sharing treaty with Pakistan,
fallen over 70 %. It may decrease by a
China-India-Bangladesh are reorganizing
further 5–15 % by 2025 as per specialists.
their
water
Moreover, rainfall and river runoff are often
sharing and there are many more such cases.
highly variable, leading to water shortages
This is not a sudden phenomena; in many
in summer and floods in monsoon. Pollution
parts of the world water availability is
often adds another set of problem to the use
position
on
Brahamaputra
severely
limited.
As per
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Integrated River Basin Management Society