Newsletter No. 64; IRBMS
May, 2018
Ganga
( Picture Sourc:e ANI News)
In a recent study by NASA scientists concluded
Commentary
that freshwater around the world is moving
Another summer is passing and the water crisis is constantly but maybe not in a way that suits
in different parts of the India becoming acute. current human habitation. Dry areas on the planet
Unfortunately the urban elite media is not are getting drier and wet areas are getting
concerned about the scarcity of water in India’s wetter. It has been known that freshwater from
rural hinterland where thousands of villagers of glaciers or aquifers are running out, like in high-
hundreds of villages are walking in the scorching altitude glaciers in the Himalayas, or from
sun to collect water from far flung places. groundwater in central North West India. The
Monsoon is coming in normal time still this study
drought journal Nature shows that water worldwide is
like
situation
groundwater condition.
is
due
to
perched
published
May
17th
in
the
being redistributed—and it’s implications are quite
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