WATER-WATER

WATER-WATER

The united nations reminded all countries in March 22, World Water Day, that humanity continues to impose a staggering burden on rivers, lakes and deltas each year in the form of pollution. Pollutants dumped in key water sources annually are estimated to weigh as much as the global population- close to seven billion people. The disturbing truth should encourage everyone starting with national governments to do more to protect the broth of life. The first step is to plug the sources of the million of tonnes of sewage and industrial and agricultural waste that are pumped perennially in to water ways and other fresh water reserves.
India's response to pollution has been atrociously slow. In 2008, the country had the capacity to treat only about 18 percent of the sewage produced in cities and towns, The est of the sewage flows in to water ways and lakes, contaminating ground water and spreading diseases. A vast volume of untreated sewage was flowing in to the Yamuna every day. The problem is linked to the national issue of insufficient housing sanitation, and sewerage. The most in famous example of India's failed attempts at river cleansing is that of the Ganga, which has over the millennia been revered as a holy river. It is listed by the Un as severely polluted, with its basin reserving billions of liters of waste water every year. When will rising India realize it must go all out to ensure clean water for its people.

Prof. John Kurakar