Meet expresses concern over low per capita availability of water in India
India which was currently in the “water stressed country” category will slip to “water scares country” category by 2025 and the inter-linking of rivers (ILR) and inter-basin water transfer (IWT) is the only way to surmount the impending problem, said former Environmental Appraisal Committee for River Valley Projects chairman P.G.Sastry.
Delivering the keynote address at a workshop on “Interlinking of River in India - A Vision for 21 Century”, organised by the Vijayawada Centre of The Institution of Engineers (IEI) to mark the 113rd birth anniversary of engineering genius and dam builder K.L. Rao on Tuesday Mr Sastry said that India ranked 132 in per capita availability of water and 122 in water quality.
While the per capita availability of water in India was 1,588 cubic metre per annum, the international norm was 1,700 cubic metres.
All countries with a per capita availability of less then 1,000 cubic metres were considered “water stress” and by 2025 the per capita availability of water in the country would 850 cubic metres, Mr Sastry said.
He said there were several challenges to linking the rivers, but the second green revolution could be achieved by river linking and inter-basin water transfer.
Vijayawada Central MLA Bonda Umamaheswara Rao said all engineering students should emulate great builders like K.L.Rao and Mokshagundam Visvesvraya.
IEI national president Ashok Kumar Basa, vice-president L.V. Murali Krishna Reddy and local centre chairman P. Ravindra Babu paid floral tributed to the statue of K.L.Rao
Students of various colleges in the district presented papers on the various challenges in water management and conservation at the workshop.
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