Scientists say Indian farmers draining Pakistan’s waters

[Parul]

Raw conspiracy

It's India's Conspiracy....RAW Conspiracy is for Bangladesh

 

[SRP]

It's India's Conspiracy....RAW Conspiracy is for Bangladesh

Oops my bad. Edited.

 

[Roybot]

telling you what Organic farming REALLY is

Oh is it! I had no idea!

Organic farming is not for the masses. Its a first world niche market which Indian producers are tapping into, it makes good business sense.

For the Indian masses heavily mechanized and "inorganic" farming is the only way to go right now.

 

[Srinivas]

EVERYONE knows the water table under their land....So if they know this is the amount available and keep pumping above it...Obviously it is not coming from heaven but from your neighbour! Now kindly stop quoting me if you have nothing to discuss but your ignorance on the seriousness of the issues!

same goes for the rest of you jokers!

Now we became jokers for raising valid points .......

As I said earlier there is no limit to drilling.

 

[Dubious]

Oh is it! I had no idea!

Organic farming is not for the masses. Its a first world niche market which Indian producers are tapping into, it makes good business sense.

For the Indian masses heavily mechanized and "inorganic" farming is the only way to go right now.

I thought so!

 

[Roybot]

I thought so!

 

[Parul]

Now we became jokers for raising valid points .......

As I said earlier there is no limit to drilling.

I'll add it to the List of things that I've learnt from PDF...... and people in Denial Mode should not quote us Joker's...

 

[SRP]

I'll add it to the List of things that I've learnt from PDF...... and people in Denial Mode should not quote us Joker's...

One thing more RAW conspiracy, India conspiracy and now farmer conspiracy.

 

[Jayanta]

Come to Europe and you will see the differences...Many of the Indian themselves prefer to purchase the Pakistani products over their own...

Very true man, I always buy Pakistani basmati rice (Badshah basmati) as it is damn cheap as compared to the Indian counterpart (Kohinoor) or the British importer brand Tilda (which imports basmati grown in Haryana, India). Why is Indian Basmati expensive than the Pakistani one??

 

[RazPaK]

Inferior Indians crying about their inferiority once again.

 

[Dubious]

Now we became jokers for raising valid points .......

As I said earlier there is no limit to drilling.

Define validity?

Drilling is not a prob... Drill deeper....apparently in India you were not thought geography the meaning of reserved water, water table, Aquifer and what not...kindly do your research...

It is called groundwater management....if PDF is a representative of ignorance in India, no wonder our water is being stolen...Mind you it is a issue around the globe and can be raised!

http://wrri.nmsu.edu/publish/techrpt/tr109/tr109.pdf

Crimes against Humanity: Stealing Palestine’s Water Resources | Global Research

India?s nexus between resources, climate change - and stability

Maybe you can not recall how India was crying when Coka cola was stealing your water...it was an issue but you see it ok to do the same to someone else that too at a larger scale?

CorpWatch*:*Corporate Accountability International: Tell Coke to Stop Stealing Water

IRC- Coca-Cola -- Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable

 

[jetti]

we are gracious enought to give them indus water, its only fair we draw a small amoutn of ground water.

 

[Dubious]

we are gracious enought to give them indus water, its only fair we draw a small amoutn of ground water.

Small amount? You can extract your own but do not pump out our ground water when you have used up your quota!

this is what happens when you INEFFICIENTLY use water!

Indians kindly educate yourself

We are used to thinking of water as a renewable resource. However much we waste and abuse it, the rains will come again and the rivers and reservoirs will refill. Except during droughts, this is true for water at the surface. But not underground. As we pump more and more rivers dry, the world is increasingly dependent on subterranean water. That is water stored by nature in the pores of rocks, often for thousands of years, before we began to tap it with our drills and pumps.

We are emptying these giant natural reservoirs far faster than the rains can refill them. The water tables are falling, the wells have to be dug ever deeper, and the pumps must be ever bigger. We are mining water now that should be the birthright of future generations.

In India, the water is being taken for industry, for cities, and especially for agriculture. Once a country of widespread famine, India has seen an agricultural revolution in the past half century. India now produces enough food to feed all its people; the fact that many Indians still go hungry today is an economic and political puzzle, because the country exports rice.

But that may not last. Researchers estimate that a quarter of India's food is irrigated with underground water that nature is not replacing. The revolution is living on borrowed water and borrowed time. Who will feed India when the water runs out?

Nobody knows how much water is buried beneath our feet. But we do know that the reserves are being emptied. The crisis is global and growing, but remains largely out of sight and out of mind.

The latest estimate, published in the journal Water Resources Research this year, is that India alone is pumping out some 46 cubic miles (190 cubic kilometers) of water a year from below ground, while nature is refilling only 29 cubic miles (120 cubic kilometers), a shortfall of 17 cubic miles (70 cubic kilometers) per year. A cubic kilometer is 264.2 billion gallons, or about enough water to fill 400,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.

Close behind India, Pakistan is overpumping by 8.4 cubic miles (35 cubic kilometers), the United States by 7.2 cubic miles (30 cubic kilometers), and China and Iran by 4.8 cubic miles (20 cubic kilometers) each per year. Globally, the shortfall is about 60 cubic miles (250 cubic kilometers) per year, more than three times the rate half a century ago. Egypt, Uzbekistan, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Syria, Australia, Israel, and others are all pumping up their water at least 50 percent faster than the rains replenish. In some places, water that you could once bring to the surface with a bucket on a short rope is now a mile or more down.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121218-grabbing-water-from-future-generations/

 

[Srinivas]

Define validity?

Drilling is not a prob... Drill deeper....apparently in India you were not thought geography the meaning of reserved water, water table, Aquifer and what not...kindly do your research...

It is called groundwater management....if PDF is a representative of ignorance in India, no wonder our water is being stolen...Mind you it is a issue around the globe and can be raised!

http://wrri.nmsu.edu/publish/techrpt/tr109/tr109.pdf

Crimes against Humanity: Stealing Palestine’s Water Resources | Global Research

India?s nexus between resources, climate change - and stability

Maybe you can not recall how India was crying when Coka cola was stealing your water...it was an issue but you see it ok to do the same to someone else that too at a larger scale?

CorpWatch*:*Corporate Accountability International: Tell Coke to Stop Stealing Water

IRC- Coca-Cola -- Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable

First point:

There are no agreements related to water drilling between India and Pakistan.

Second point: As per the links you have mentioned in the your posts, we are also facing water scarcity in India, reason for us to drill deeper.

Third point: This drilling is not done purposefully or to weaken Pakistani agriculture. Look at the map of Pakistan you have indus basin all over your agricultural lands, why not dig water reservoirs and pits to improve ground water level, Our state Govts. are doing it for over a decade, especially in AP we used to have a scheme regarding this issue.

Fourth point: Do not look this issue in the lens of Israel and Palestine, both are different and these issue(if it is an issue....) can be dealt by talks, last time you people went to tribunal regarding water of Indus and other rivers Pakistan lost its appeal.

Fifth point: You people are getting water from Indian part of kashmir ...

Small amount? You can extract your own but do not pump out our ground water when you have used up your quota!

this is what happens when you INEFFICIENTLY use water!

Indians kindly educate yourself



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121218-grabbing-water-from-future-generations/

Define the quota and agreement between the nations related to it .

 

[SirHatesALot]

So is Pakistan going to do anything about this?