hyderabad sources reported that twenty one cities in india including delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and hyderabad will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting around 100 million people, claims a report by NITI Ayog. Furthermore the report also says that 40 per cent of india's population will have no access to drinking water by 2030. Presently the situation is alarming, given the fact that year 2020 is not very far.
Former director of National Water Academy professor Manohar Khushalani said "The government is depending upon the desalination in Chennai which is very expensive also however they forget that the earth is a limited planet and oceans will dry. What will we leave for our children and grandchildren? We may have a lot of money but we cannot ask our children to drink money instead of water. Using ocean water and desalination is not the solution but water harvesting is".
He said "It is a collective responsibility of the government and people of the country to save water and contribute to increasing the groundwater levels". Moreover Mr Khushalani is presently working as professor in Indraprastha Institute of Information technology delhi and has also authored books ''Irrigation Practice and designed in five volumes''.
