For Love of water but not “Sick Water”:

Friends realize that we are just 1/4 but water is 3/4 of the world:

The United Nations reminded all countries on March 22, World Water Day, that humanity continues to impose a staggering burden on rivers, lakes, and deltas each year in the form of pollution. What the UN has highlighted in its report titled “Sick Water?” should stir the conscience of people everywhere. “Pollutants dumped in key water sources annually are estimated to weigh as much as the global population – which is close to seven billion people.”
“This disturbing truth should encourage everyone starting with national governments to do more to protect the broth of life.” The first step is to plug the sources of the millions of tonnes of sewage and industrial and agricultural waste that are pumped perennially into water ways and other fresh water reserves.











Action taken to improve water quality pays rich dividends – the UN Environment Programme and Habitat estimate the return to be between $3 and $34 for every dollar spent, depending upon the region and technology employed. Such investments are really important for India.

India’s response to pollution has been atrociously slow. In 2008, the country had the capacity to treat only about 18 percent of the sewage produced in cities and towns, and the increments since then have been insignificant. The rest of the sewage flows into water ways and lakes, contaminating ground water and spreading disease. The problem is linked to the national issue of insufficient of housing, sanitation, and sewage. The most infamous example of India’s failed attempts at river cleansing is that of the Ganga, which has over the millennia been revered as a holy water.






It is listed by the UN as severely polluted, with its basin receiving billions of liters of waste water every year. Clearly, governments are abdicating their responsibility towards citizens by allowing the positioning of meager and dwindling fresh water. Some are keen set up expensive desalination plans, without making a parallel affect to protect surface and ground water and recover waste water. The way forward is to enforce the well recognized “Polluted Pays” principle. Industries and municipal authorities should lead the clean up. When will rising India realize it must go all out to ensure clean water for its people?


The Bottom Line:
I am talking only about India because I knew it and it is my country. I think almost all the countries are suffering with the same problem. “Don’t be selfish friends, Please show some mercy towards water otherwise it will wipe you out of this beautiful world, because we are occupying just ¼ of the world, but it is covering 3/4 just realize it friends.”