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Water woes trigger frequent clashes in parched Jharkhand
Alok K N Mishra, TNN | Apr 3, 2013, 11.17 AM IST
RANCHI: Jharkhand is reeling under severe water crisis and the situation has worsened with the drying up of lakhs of hand-pumps and taps due to falling of water table.
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Vishnugarh is one of the worst-affected areas in the state with 300 of its 350 hand-pumps lying defunct.
In Hazaribag, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Chatra, Gumla and also in the state capital frequent incidents of clashes related to water are reported every summer.
The state was declared drought-hit in two consecutive years, 2009 and 2010, and then again in 2012 and almost every district has reported alarming fall in water table.
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Against a total requirement of 2000 billion litre of water for 3.36 crore (33.6 million - Ro) people, the state agencies provide only 15%. A huge 85 per cent population is dependent on groundwater sources which have gone down at an alarming rate in the past 10 years. Geologists say people in Jamshedpur now have to drill 500 feet in the ground to reach the water source which was readily available at 150 feet 10 years ago.
Alok K N Mishra, TNN | Apr 3, 2013, 11.17 AM IST
RANCHI: Jharkhand is reeling under severe water crisis and the situation has worsened with the drying up of lakhs of hand-pumps and taps due to falling of water table.
...
Vishnugarh is one of the worst-affected areas in the state with 300 of its 350 hand-pumps lying defunct.
In Hazaribag, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Chatra, Gumla and also in the state capital frequent incidents of clashes related to water are reported every summer.
The state was declared drought-hit in two consecutive years, 2009 and 2010, and then again in 2012 and almost every district has reported alarming fall in water table.
...
Against a total requirement of 2000 billion litre of water for 3.36 crore (33.6 million - Ro) people, the state agencies provide only 15%. A huge 85 per cent population is dependent on groundwater sources which have gone down at an alarming rate in the past 10 years. Geologists say people in Jamshedpur now have to drill 500 feet in the ground to reach the water source which was readily available at 150 feet 10 years ago.
