Unjust and not acceptable’: Water taken from Indian villages ‘sold to malls’ amid Chennai drought

[beijingwalker]

In authoritarian orwellian states, you can have magic la-la-la videos happening right next to hellish nightmare few blocks away.

India democracy can have one nightmare after another just a few blocks away. ask your people to drink democracy when they are running out of water.

 

[Han Patriot]

Democracy results in this even coming to news cycle in first place.

Tank-crushing-student countries wouldn't really understand. Many from those thus think everything is magical and perfect in their land.

Say that to the Kashmiris, Punjabis and Dalits. The fact is it has nothing to do with democracy, it's just a cultural thing. Talk and talk, and nothing happens. When shit happens, blame someone, talk again of solutions. Repeat the cycle.

For years Indians were laughing that China is gonna collapse and be in a crisis because of water. They didn't even look at themselves. Meanwhile we invested in greenhouse farming, drip irrigation, returning unproductive farmland to forest, built the largest man made forest, control groundwater usage, built a 20 billions diversion program to the north.

Indians like to say they have a Google CEO and Microsoft CEO, smartest of them all, but when it comes to the real world of getting things done. This is the result, your CEOs talk, the CEO of India talk. WE DO! I will bet with you guys, INDIA will not solve this problem. Because India lacks political will and organization.

 

[beijingwalker]

I will bet with you guys, INDIA will not solve this problem. Because India lacks political will and organization.

Asking a government to spend tens of billions to undertake a massive project which will massively benefit the country, people and the future government in the long run, while in short term can be accused by all sides of draining national coffer and putting the country on a financial strain, Do you really think any Indian governments will do this?

Their beautiful democray won't see anything beyond their office terms and won't hesiate to cut the ground under their political opponents feet, let alone helping them.

 

[CIA Mole]

indians need to sort this out
none of its neighbors and western countries want to see an influx of climate refugees

 

[055_destroyer]

You guys keep calling us the opppressed people and our government a ruthless dictatorship, but even in Xinjiang the world 2nd biggest desert, government forbid children to drink tap water cause the government worry the tap water doesn't not meet national drinkable water standard and asked children to drink from water purifiers. that's what Chinese government does for the people, call us being oppressed.

School Poverty alleviation in poor rural regions in southern Xinjiang, safe drinking water for rural kids
Southern Xinjiang is one of the 14 worst poverty regions in China prioritized for alleviation program by the government. The alleviation officials found the local school kids have a habit of drinking tap water directly from the faucets and they tested the local tap water and found the water is not clean enought for direct drinking and may compromise children's health.

After the report handed to the government, the government sent and installed water purifier machines in local schools, now children can drink water safely from those machines and the children say the water from the water purifiers taste much better.

The local teacher says it'll still take some time to change the local kids habit of drinking tapwater directly though.

Sourgraped will always be sourgraped. What do you expect from this delusion people? Democracy is a failure system which they failed to admit. The irony is the so called oppress has enough water to led a comfortable life. Facts don't lie. Its a matter of time these Indian will revolt over government failure.

 

[Chhatrapati]

Yes state govt has notoriously done a terrible job on water management.

There is no rain in Kerala anna.... The dams are nearly empty. Even the periyar is abnormally low in water. So, there is not much water for TN. This will worsen as no water means, no agriculture and we depend on TN for vegetables and what not, leading to inflation here.

 

[Han Patriot]

Asking a government to spend tens of billions to undertake a massive project which will massively benefit the country, people and the future government in the long run, while in short term can be accused by all sides of draining national coffer and putting the country on a financial strain, Do you really think any Indian governments will do this?

Their beautiful democray won't see anything beyond their office terms and won't hesiate to cut the ground under their political opponents feet, let alone helping them.

its not democracy per se, its the people, theculture, the culture of incompetence, boasting, blame, lying and thinking being shrewd is good. In the end they think the most shrewd tactic is inaction and shifting blame. there is also a culture of denial, ignoring and denying the problem even exists. contrast this to China. we acknowledge the problems and solve it.

 

[PakSword]

And we thought the water situation in Karachi was bad.....

If it's not that bad, it will become bad in a few years time if measures are not taken to conserve water in Karachi

Yes it must happen, and should have happened a long time ago actually when labour was very cheap and could be commited on mass scale. Instead govt focused on heavy industry and big capital sinks like that (too early)....when what we needed was the very basic civic projects.

But better late than never.

I think preserving rain water is a more suitable solution.. Large areas of land should be prepared to absorb the rain water in order for the increase in ground water level. Sadly, cities turning into concrete and industries sucking ground water has led to this situation..

In Karachi, industries suck the ground water and now water is available at more than 250 feet in some areas.. open spaces which used to absorb water such as play grounds, parks and many other such spaces have been converted into residential areas.. trees have been cut.. the situation has put negative effects on ground water, health, sports skills, temperature, flora and fiona of many cities in Pakistan.. Karachi is the most affected..

There is no rain in Kerala anna.... The dams are nearly empty. Even the periyar is abnormally low in water. So, there is not much water for TN. This will worsen as no water means, no agriculture and we depend on TN for vegetables and what not, leading to inflation here.

Both Pakistan and India should invest in rain water conservation.. that's the only solution..

 

[Chhatrapati]

Both Pakistan and India should invest in rain water conservation.. that's the only solution..

yeah, and the fact that we are planting more and more trees with each year but the rainfall keeps going down.

I think it's going to act counterproductive at least in the short term. There was a massive forestation drive in my nearby town, within 5 years the local wells started having much less water compared to previous year and they can't cut those trees down because it's now protected.

 

[PakSword]

yeah, and the fact that we are planting more and more trees with each year but the rainfall keeps going down.

I think it's going to act counterproductive at least in the short term. There was a massive forestation drive in my nearby town, within 5 years the local wells started having much less water compared to previous year and they can't cut those trees down because it's now protected.

In the short term, yes.. But in future, trees will slow down the flow of rain water and force it to the ground...

Water flows freely towards the sea on hard lands.. trees and vegetation make the land soft..

The forestation drive will yield the results one day, and it is the only way.. Trees attract rain as well..

I hope Pakistani government's drive of plating 10 billion trees is also going on full speed as in the next ten years or so, Karachi will be out of ground water..

 

[Nilgiri]

I think preserving rain water is a more suitable solution.. Large areas of land should be prepared to absorb the rain water in order for the increase in ground water level. Sadly, cities turning into concrete and industries sucking ground water has led to this situation..

Yes rainwater harvesting and also surface runoff....and on top of river water storage management (if you see just how much still just goes to the Sea in peak flow seasons).

Groundwater extraction is just what happens when you dont have a good dedicated "higher level" plan....because its simply cheap and easy (given you dont account for long term cost).

Also India simply does not price water in first place, lot of it is wasted in bad farming use.....and lot of water-use crops essentially get harmful subsidy that locks water in there compared to what it should be if there was better market pricing in operation.

 

[AViet]

Sourgraped will always be sourgraped. What do you expect from this delusion people? Democracy is a failure system which they failed to admit. The irony is the so called oppress has enough water to led a comfortable life. Facts don't lie. Its a matter of time these Indian will revolt over government failure.

Western style democracy is not only a failure system. It will bring misery to the whole world, even for countries without living under this terrible system, like China or Vietnam. If India fails (like hundred of other "mature democracies" which have), massive influx of starving people will go off India border, and possibly first time in human history, in the number of hundred of millions. Where can they go? Of course their first option is to countries nearby, like China.

 

[ghameed]

There is no rain in Kerala anna.... The dams are nearly empty. Even the periyar is abnormally low in water. So, there is not much water for TN. This will worsen as no water means, no agriculture and we depend on TN for vegetables and what not, leading to inflation here.

You depend on TN for vegetables ? Which state are you from ? Kerala?

 

[Chhatrapati]

You depend on TN for vegetables ? Which state are you from ? Kerala?

Yep, the consumer state.

 

[nahtanbob]

Can you deny it ? We spend hundreds of billions dollars and diverted water to benefit hundreds of millions people in the north, what did your government do for the thirsty population besides stealing water from them? Enjoy drinking your democracy.

the next time a dear leader pulls a Cultural Revolution or Great Leap Forward good luck to you comrade