India Suffers History’s Worst Water Shortage

[IndigoRed]

Another piece of evidence of how an incompetent government results in a country that will soon face its worst environmental crisis in history. Because of the lack of legislation for groundwater extraction and their inability to price water for homes (also due to political constraints), India now has six hundred million people  dealing with high to extreme water shortage. A report even states that an average of 200,000 Indian lives are lost every year due to inadequate supply or contamination of water (based on a CNN article).

It really is difficult to create a significant change when the leaders whose job is to enforce policies and to build a sustainable framework for its constituents are doing nothing. Poor governing, anywhere in the world will just bring populations to the edge of environmental crisis.

Is there anything else that can be done? Cases like this sound so hopeless.

[2tf]

It is contradictory to see when a country with sufficient natural resources but are poorly managed by people that only have power for their own interests leaves the population exposed to unsatisfied basic needs. The traditional political powers must be renewed with a political and social revolution it is the only way to change the situation.

[Jane Moore]

"Official data in the past decade depicts how annual per capita availability of water in the country has plummeted significantly with 163 million Indians lacking access to safe drinking water." (from Wikipedia)
This is a really terrible statistic. Indian people should force their government to take measures in other cases the number of suffering people will dramatically increase((

[thoerz18]

India Experiencing Lack of the Worst Water History. Every year hundreds of thousands of people have died from drought and water contamination. India with the second largest population in the world suffered the worst water crisis in its history, and the situation continues to deteriorate year after year due to severe water shortages.

[Scuffs]

Shows how challenged we are as a race to efficiently allocate our resources. There is too much inequality, apathy and greed for everyone's needs to be met. Sad really. I'd say that overpopulation is a huge contributing factor to their situation, though. The sheer number of people makes a situation like this catastrophic.

[KingScorpio]

Another piece of evidence of how an incompetent government results in a country that will soon face its worst environmental crisis in history. Because of the lack of legislation for groundwater extraction and their inability to price water for homes (also due to political constraints), India now has six hundred million people  dealing with high to extreme water shortage. A report even states that an average of 200,000 Indian lives are lost every year due to inadequate supply or contamination of water (based on a CNN article).

It really is difficult to create a significant change when the leaders whose job is to enforce policies and to build a sustainable framework for its constituents are doing nothing. Poor governing, anywhere in the world will just bring populations to the edge of environmental crisis.

Is there anything else that can be done? Cases like this sound so hopeless.

india is broken in multiple ways, it would need a brutal comunist revolution, similar like maoism, to fix their long therm development,

but i doubt thats possible, simply give religion for the poor (hinduism) , so they calm down, and use them as money earning cattle like the rich indians do.

oh and forget the western teachings about enlightenment or humanism, you cant live in india like that, you have to affix your mind according to the cast sytem, dont humanise the poor, you have to consider them like animals.

sounds hard but its true....

top indians, secretely think only the gods can help the poor they cannot, i wonder myself how long it will take till india might absorb some form of maoist communism.

regards