Ministers are in favour of 'Pricing' Water

[indiawinks]

Recently i have heard this news on news paper that ministers are in favour of Pricing Water.
I think Now Pepsi coca-cola will own our rivers, lake, ground water. And they will sell it us only.

Water problem can be solved by awareness. People are much more aware of these things.. Pleople are very cautious abt wasting water. 

Congressi's are selling india's each every atom.....

we have to fight this out.. Our ancestors fought with brits so that we can live freely... now we have to fight our own ppl for our freedom..

Observing that India was the 'biggest waster' of water, Union water resources minister Pawan Kumar Bansal  on Wednesday batted for pricing of the scarce resource.

Terming the issue of pricing water as a 'politically volatile question', particularly for politicians, Bansal said 'this is the need of the hour today that people like me, people in the government and people in the public life also muster the courage to say that water needs to be priced adequately'.

He said the quantity of water which is bare minimum for an individual could be made available for free.

"But above that level water has to be priced." The minister was addressing Water 2010 conference organised by Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi.

He later said the idea of pricing water was his personal view. Bansal lamented that India is termed as the 'largest waster' of water in the world and stressed the need to conserve the natural resource.

Noting that the per capita availability of water was declining at a very high rate, Bansal said in the early 1950s, 5300 cubic meters of water was available per person.

Now, the per capita availability has gone down to less than 1700 cubic meters, he said.

Bansal said by the year 2050, the per capita availability of water in the country could decline further to less than 1500 cubic meters.

On groundwater depletion, he said according to statistics, in Delhi, Punjab and Haryana, its level has gone below 50 per cent.

While talking about irrigation, Bansal said the sector, which gets 83 per cent of the total available water pegged at 1123 billion cubic meters at present, will get competition from other sectors in its usage.

He said though India's population was 16 to 17 per cent of the total global population, it had a mere four per cent of the world's water resources.

[internetlot]

All north Indian states such as Punjab, Haryana, UP, Bihar, Uttarakhand have many big and small rivers so there is no shortage of water in North India. But in South India there is not many rivers and that is why they have such shortage in Mumbai and in Tamilnadu etc. I think, in light of the fact that north Indian people are being killed in South India these days, we should dump them, and ask them to form their own republic. We should leave them to their thirsty destiny, or they should just purify sea water. South India is actually the most pathetic region in the world...(I include maharashtra in South)

[Anjali]

@ Internetlot

Why this cheap talk of North or South ? If you haven't grown mentally i.e., not matured enough to be a gentleman then please keep quite rather than injecting " regional poisons " into the public domains. Already India started to have serious problems in this regard and so there is no point in aggravating this unfortunate situation by such cheap talk.

[ajay]

Today it is water, tomorrow it will be air that we breathe, then sunlight and then what not !! Per capita availability of water has gone down Not because of water shortage but because of uncontrolled population and overcrowding of cities. If we build new cities spaced far apart, ground water will never be a problem there. This is beginning to happen along Yamuna and Ganga Expressways where several new cities have been planned. These cities will never ever have any problem of ground water. Places like Delhi where overcrowding is increasing, will see water shortages due to MISMANAGEMENT, not shortage. There is NO problem of availability of water in Delhi, it is available in any quantity one wants, but through tankers run by political mafias, not through Jal Board, whose job it is to provide clean water at reasonable price. Bottled water is criminal loot of the common people.