World water day

 

World water day 

➡️World Water Day is observed every year on March 22 to celebrate water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. The day urges the world to take action to tackle the global water crisis.

➡️India’s Condition

✅ The geographical area of India is about 33 lakh square kilometers. About 16% of the world's population lives in India but only 4% of freshwater sources are available. Along with the low availability of freshwater, there is a huge disparity in the sources of available water.

➡️Theme 2022

✅This year, the theme for the day is "Groundwater, making the invisible visible".

👉Groundwater is an invisible resource that provides almost half of all drinking water worldwide, about 40% of water for irrigated agriculture and about one-third of water required for industry.

👉Groundwater is water found underground in aquifers, which are geological formations of rocks, sands and gravels that hold substantial quantities of water. Groundwater feeds springs, rivers, lakes and wetlands, and seeps into oceans.

👉Most arid areas of the world depend entirely on groundwater. It is also critically important to the healthy functioning of ecosystems, such as wetlands and rivers.

➡️Groundwater in India

👉70% of groundwater available in the country is found only in the Indo-Gangetic-Brahmaputra plains which is only 30% of the geographical area of the country.

👉Most of the groundwater availability in the country is in the northwestern part of the country. It includes parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and western Uttar Pradesh. There are resources here, but due to their indiscriminate extraction, the groundwater level is going down to dangerous levels.

👉In many parts of the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, due to less rainfall, the groundwater level is not recharged.

👉At the same time, due to geographical conditions in Karnataka, parts of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu in southern India, groundwater is not available in sufficient quantity. 

👉There are many states of the country where groundwater has gone down to dangerous levels. 

👉These include Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan. The situation in the country's capital Delhi is the most worrying, where only 8% of groundwater is present at a safe level.

👉The percentage of safe areas in Punjab, Rajasthan, and Haryana is 11.3%, Rajasthan 12.54%, and Haryana 21.28 percent, respectively.