India's Looming Zero Water Day: An Environmental Crisis | Insight | CNA Insider 

Most other countries are doing okay. In the end, it'll be India buying water from neighbours.

India vs China? I don’t think India will win.. have to buy water from them soon!

Resource war is our future

Addicted to corruption. Money is more important than water. Money makes power.

@Hey, that's pretty average. how dare you attack my Hindu religion... I am going to report your comment and make sure that your account is banned... Cows bring development... Jai Hanuman..

@@eapenkurian4134 So let's take the power away. I've been thinking about how we are so conditioned to keep paying taxes but never see any results or ask any questions. The govt collects INR 1 lakh crore in GST every month, so how is it getting re-invested towards us the people? How about we start asking for more transparency in how our taxes are actually spent? It's time we break the wheel and ask our government the right questions. As tax paying citizens, it's our fundamental civic duty to ask for oversight.

​@@MrPinku9 very respectfully, while individual responsibility is paramount, our voting franchise is of no use if all the parties are corrupt. Having voted in the 2019 election, it did strike me that there is absolutely no representation of the tax paying and burden bearing middle and upper middle class people in our Government. While we do have certain civic duties and responsibilities, you cannot deny the fact that drinking water, better infrastructure, good healthcare etc are our basic rights in this country. Rights for which we are paying a LOT of taxes. So while every citizen should start being more responsible at a individual and community level, we also got to ask for accountability from our government. Both need to happen hand in hand.

@Hey, that's pretty average. While I agree with your ideology of believing in facts and science, I genuinely request you to refrain from digressing from the main topic and bring religion in the midst. It just doesn't help the discussion and only induces more hate. Let's just lazer focus on the issue at hand - water crisis instead of indulging in blame game.

actually they have cut down many trees because they are taking up the water before it can reach the aquifers below also bamboo would be better than trees. Issue is getting them to grow WITHOUT WATER in their state now.

Grass grows faster and can sequester more carbon using CO2.

@@nickys5578 Trees create rain via transpiration.

Razor Reznov same with Philippines in the Northern part

I am living in Bangalore from 1992.... such a nice place it was.....

This argument can be made about any city. I live in Mumbai and this was a beautiful fuckin city . The place i live is filled with bunglaws and now in last 20 years all bunglaws are converted into building . Meaning in a place were 1 family lived in a bunglow now live atleast 40 families. I cant even drive my car until its night 10 pm trains are unusable. Every day atleaast 10 people in mumbai fall from train and die. Buses are over crouded. If you are a girl you are just crusehed between random guys all the time. All i know is British treated bombay like their baby and we Indians didn't to any city planning and destroyed it.

@@2531Prasad ignorant fool blaming everything on Brits

@@2531Prasad that's people's problem.. Modi doing level best.. Don't politics ok.. Otherwese u will not have balls..

@Manzoor Hekmatyar very respectfully, you are entitled to your opinions, but not your facts Sir. While, some parts of your opinions do hold water in terms of benefits given to retain a large voting bank, I would still urge you to not namecall/dehumanize them. Our world is already very polarized and the blame game or us vs them rhetoric ain't helping anyone. We as a country need to stand together to make our voices heard and enable change.

@Manzoor Hekmatyar you should blame the caste system not the people who are victims of it. Hinduism and the laws of Manu are responsible.

@Manzoor Hekmatyar bimaru states are most responsible for it.

@@jsnagra1able don't be stupid. Those flats they showed in the video are bought by the so-called elites, the educated. hindusim has nothing to do with it. Rather hinduism made people worship nature and consume in moderation. In other words, don't be stupid, Mr. Rational Thinker.

jharkhand mob lynching and colour of indian cricket team's jersey are more important issues to focus on. see the number of articles in crap-papers and crappy sites are didacated to jharkhand mob lynching and how many for water issues.

hence I'm saying, instead of just quoting the past, let's organize and create awareness to enable a movement at a grassroots level. And when I say grassroots, I don't mean rural - at an urban grassroots level. People are starting to see the stark truth, especially since the last couple of years. I'm 32, have paid taxes for the past decade and have not seen ANY re-investment whatsoever towards the tax paying belt. The roads are still bad, infrastructure is crumbling, water mismanagement is through the roof, crimes still go unreported, no houses are ever built for the urban poor ... the list goes on. At some point we the people of India have to take matters into our own hands and challenge the political status quos and establishments. A middle class uprising is inevitable since we do bear the burden of taxes the most at a collective level. Hence we in Mumbai are starting to organize in professional circles to be the change we want to see and preach. This will not happen overnight coz we would be challenging political norms that are as old as Mother India is. I would urge you to follow the urban grassroots movement in USA like Indivisible and Justice Democrats where everyday working people are running for offices so real problems can be solved. This challenge to establishment is very required especially now that in theory there is no opposition party. This gives us a unique opportunity to organize and create a caucus of salaried tax paying citizens who need to be represented in the government.. #IfNotNowWhen

Indian pollution laws is a big joke. BACKWARD ITS A SHAME

The media has a responsibility to to bring awareness to the problem, but no they to busy talking about bollywood garbage.

who will implement one child policy. already banning this evil practice of triple talak is uphill battle you really think one child policy can be implemented?

The military and police.

Desalination is not a solution for india. What are you going to do in interiors which are far from oceans? You can't transport so much water through pipes. What we need a good environmental.policy, it's strict implementation and public awareness

@@InnocentBoyV dehumidification.

Mumbai may be flooding but it is also facing big water crisis.. If you read the news we had only few days of water left.. So it was cutting close.. Thank god rain came.. But how long are we going to depend on rain to bail oursleves

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Shame on our people and politicians.

ISRO the Indian space program is actually profitable

Don’t forget a lack of toilets.

@@theSumanDatta25 oh stop with that shit. They don't need to do anything with tax money other than build infrastructure cauze this is fucking ridiculous

@@hunterxcraft8328 Wait you realize that this makes more money for infrastructure overall right?

Rastra Nirman Trust and other NGO also working for water recharging ....

Agreed, while holding the govt accountable. It's time we start asking the right questions at an individual, family, community, society and government level.

@@sprineo29 we need to become active as species in order to survive.

Just because you've not heard someone dying from thirst or hunger doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. Most of our current Indian media are just happy with covering problems such as finding out the caste of a god, holding debates where everyone is just shouting about whether a temple should be built or not as if that would make this nation the most advanced nation on this fucking planet. Just recently on 11 April, I think, NDTV covered a village where people didn't have water at all! All of their water pumps had dried out and the local government authorities were of no help at all. But unfortunately, even most of Indians are not interested in such news. They jut want sensation creating news that will make them angry for a night against a particular political party and then they'll go to sleep and forget about it the next day.

That's the problem of my country (India), we pretend that doomsday clock has a snooze button.

Many people in India died cos of poisoning or diarrhoea caused by the lack of clean water

@@akashchoudhary8162 how many news articles and memes you saw on jharkhand lynching and how many on 150 children dying of fever in bihar? what was the ratio? was a single protest march organised against bihar incidence? how many members of bjp in the last one month did you see talking on temple issue? you know people like you are more problem in this country who think by raising non-issues will somehow make them concerned citizens of india.

@@theragingcyclone You are saying water crisis is a non issue? The huge underrepresentation of the major problems of our society in the TV news is a non issue? Most of the TV news channels have been airing tv debates regarding nationalism and building a temple for the past few years. Recently, the news channels Republic TV and Times Now were holding a debate over the new orange and blue uniform of the Indian cricket team just because one or two politicians commented it shouldn't be so. Is that really a topic worth wasting a newshour on? How many news channels do you see debating topics like education, employment(or lack of it), health, infrastructure, economy. What are most of the debates in the majority of the news channels over? Mostly they are shouting matches over non issues like the Ram Temple or whether an actor is anti national for criticizing his country because as we all know India is just absolutely perfect without any problems.

Mam, Modi is bringing development in India... This drama is created by Pakistan media.. Pakistan is using Media to brainwash Indians... Jai Hanuman..

I live in Canada with lots of rivers and nobody thinks of throwing garage into a river. Telling someone not to throw garbage into a river is like asking them not to punch themselves in the face. India has a IQ problem by the sounds of it. Even if I war poor and homeless I would not throw trash into a river.

Hope he even finds the source for the water.

That's insane!!

@@gauravyadav-qi1bh then why Indians always say sh*t about problems of Pakistan and how India is better?

@@abdullah_carart5638 thats cuz media & politicians contribute in creating hate in peoples minds.

@@abdullah_carart5638 no one gives a shit about pakistan's problem.

Same here. I'm glad I'm older (which I know sounds incredibly selfish) - but I also chose to not have children - and I'm glad, because I don't see a good future (for the entire world). I think that we have reached the apex in our quality of life as westerners. I also fully realize that my quality of life as a westerner is like the "rich" live in India. I couldn't even imagine how the people in the slums live day to day. I wish that humanity had had more of a grasp on population control. If we had not exploded our population (world wide - and of course, concentrated in certain areas) - we would not be having as many problems - and we would not be fighting over resources.

Jack Ryan Ha ha ha That’s right bro! I even picked a country to take refuge, Luxembourg.

Will we survive?😢

chill everybody. there will be a breakthrough in seawater desalination technology within the next few decades and we will get our water from the oceans 😎

@@user-up1ny hope that's true

You can still be married but be a (D.I.N.K) "Double Income No Kids" and travel instead.

They have lots of water but its full of trash and human waste.

Govt is too slow.. And very little awareness among people. When I tell my colleagues about coming water crisis they just laugh at it

It's just common sense. We have lots of rivers in Canada and nobody throw garbage into one . We do not even need laws, it just common sense like not peeing on your bed.

They use dried cow manure for cooking & heating. Aka dung cakes. It's a real thing, look it up.

And it's true

This is true - but the problem is far larger than that. There are simply too many people creating the demand for water that is not there (even IF it were clean). With a clean water act - there would also need to be a whole lot of work (and money) to carry that out. And this problem is not only in India - it is all over the world, in certain areas. In California and parts of the midwest, we are losing our water table. A reckoning is coming and it won't be pretty.

@@i_love_rescue_animals I agree. It's our own fault. People aren't being respectful of mother earth including positive population growth which is 2-3 kids only per couple. Good luck with that. Mankind will have another bottleneck in due time.

@@DONNALANDS I agree on the "good luck with that" - population growth will be controlled by Mother Nature - not us. Just so you know - and not to be annoying - but, I learned in school (YEARS ago!!) that even a couple having 2 kids - assuming a very low death rate (for the children) - we will produce exponential population growth. I mean, think about it - that couple, while still alive - and if their two kids each have two kids - then that original couple will have produced SIX people - and if the original couple lives long enough and all of the parents are young parents - they could potentially have great grandkids which (with just two kids per couple) would be 14 people! Think about that - it's kind of scary. So my middle school teacher explained that having ONE child would be the only way to reduce exponential population growth - AND have more people choose to not have kids at all and maybe adopt a child. I also remember as a child that we had about 3.5 million people on the planet - we now have 7.5 billion people - more than doubling the population in about 50 years. That's scary.

Its propaganda it's not gonna last forever. The indian government is just horribly corrupt and worried about appearance

The entire population of many regions of southern India ware using rain water accumulated in large tanks as the only source of water until 1950s, and in many areas until 1970s! Of course there was no pollution back then, population was lower and life style was totally different from today. Also monsoons were regular. Today, the earth and water is heavily polluted and climate change has greatly affected the monsoon seasons.

I love dessert, especially chocolate and strawberry. Tiramisu is my favorite dessert.

who will implement that bill? how many political parties will support that bill? will secular media support that bill? will pseudo-intellectuals support that bill?

They can also use desalination plants to turn sea water to drinking water. The government either chooses not to or are too stupid to.

Actually india is really not so behind to china China has more pollution compared to India

Not until we catch up with the digital dictatorship.

@@sprineo29 you are absolutely deluded my ugly friend

@@froggyy very respectfully, you are entitled to your ugly opinions but not your facts. In anycase, the conversation here is about a real crisis, so if you can't contribute to the important discussion, I'd appreciate you not digressing from the topic. Cheers!

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@@robbenvanpersie1562 mumbai

@@harshrana5372 they cant feed such a huge population

@@robbenvanpersie1562 lol U dont know any think bro In india we dont have proper water managment We receive 30 percent extra rain But we their is no water managment our country have enough water but we had to manage

@@harshrana5372 im an Indian too. Imao. Our country will be shit in future

Access to toilets are u serious

@@zeliang5101 If they can make a community hole in the ground and do it that way it will make their lives easier. Its always good to share toilet technology.

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Couldn't sound more gullible...

When you think of Desalination plants you think of desert countries with little water. India has lots of rivers and lakes but they use them as garbage dumps and toilets.

We are building

When u dont know any think dont comment

@@zeliang5101 www.mapsofindia.com/my-india/education/water-pollution-in-india-causes-effects-solutions And that is a Indian website . Show me you link on Indian pristine rivers?

Big fan of Thanos?

No man, at least china has created millions of jobs. In india we have both unemployment plus pollution

And take a crap if they find a river on the moon.

Yeah so what

Always blame the government. Dont let them ride freely. They are in charge. They hold power. If something's happening, then it means they allow it to.