Drought shaming IPL won't end Maharashtra's water crisis
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In 2013, I decided to Asuma Sirumalai (who likes to call it Asaram Bapu) to defy the government ban and went ahead with the planned Holi celebrations at Nagpur and Kasturchand Park. At a time when most parts of the country is facing a severe drought, Asaram Holi celebrations at Nagpur is lost and alone, more than 50,000 liters of water. Activists and civil society anger and enraged the media gave them the right to broadcast appropriate, to do that was attacked Asaram and a handful of his followers disadvantaged.
Asaram and his followers challenged prohibitive orders and continued to indulge in the festivities, which consumes a lot of water across the state of Maharashtra. Angry intellectuals discuss the right of the futility of his extravaganza where millions waited in vain for several days and walked several miles to get a quarter of the water required.
This Holi Maharashtra government has issued instructions to the urban local bodies to stop the water supply to the organizers of the rain dance and swimming pools. Most municipalities complied with to ensure Holi, citing a lack of water at a very low level in the long-Latour and other parts of western Maharashtra from.
The water situation to be grim and worsened particularly in the areas of Marathwada and Vidarbha in Maharashtra affecting millions of farmers who stand after the devastating drought massive fall crops - it was officially announced by the state government. Of the 39,453 villages in the state, it was announced 23 811 drought-hit.
BCCI decided to hold 20 matches in all parts of the state of Maharashtra in the current season of the Indian Premier League starting April 9. According to the data of water consumption last year capillaries, three playgrounds consumes 60 lakh liters of water during the 2016 season.
There were PILS in the Supreme Court seeking to change the venues for the matches to be held in the state of Maharashtra. Thinkers have described the opposition to the IPL as "the worst kinds of symbolic," I found it hypocritical to why there was no request to stop watering large green areas of the Raj Bhawan or the racetrack Mahalakshmi or emptying swimming pools of the state. Arguments persuasive.
Except that instead of calling IPL because there is wastage can be avoided water in other places, they need to reverse the argument - because there is a severe water crisis currently being faced with the impact of just that in rural areas, it should not IPL be canceled, and must promoter Raj Bhawan Mahalakshmi racetrack and swimming pools of the rich also face the drought.
The burden of maintaining the water can not be all over the countryside is also not only in rural consumption is also. Drought guide applies to both rural as well as urban areas.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in response to the severe drought in California is something to learn from. There are strict guidelines governing watering gardens and washing cars and driveways.
It has been discussing the issue of fairness of water on it to develop professionals for ages. Emphasis was also placed on the need for user groups to participate in water management at various international forums. In the absence of water management simplified, in developing countries such as water for us become a source of social power.
There were articles welcome causing crops things and debate among industry stocks. As my friend Sunil Jain points out, and the sugar cane industry, which consumes a lot of bottled water and consume 2000 liters of water to produce a kilogram of sugar. One kilogram of rice takes 5389 liters of water.
The transformation of sugar cane from Maharashtra to the top and rice from Punjab to West Bengal, a significant reduction in water consumption per kilogram. And that agriculture represents 85 per cent of the water we have used and 60.4 per cent of our land, the time has come for us to do a cost-benefit analysis of this sector. They have become increasingly offer in its current form is not able to survive.
In May, California has been able to reduce their water consumption by 29 per cent against the government's requirement of 25 per cent. California vigilant that trend #DroughtShaming celebrities who indulge in wasteful water, such as watering from farms, lawns and other habits. Peer pressure forced Barbra Streisand let her grass go brown, even actor Tom Selleck got drought shamed when he was found taking water from the fire hydrant to the avocado ranch.
Arguments which mainly revolve around "whataboutery" will not solve the water crisis in the state of Maharashtra and elsewhere. On the other hand, measures such as the transformation of the IPL - whatever tokenstic appearance - will certainly contribute. According Indiaspend's, and the water used for preparing pitches for IPL can provide drinking water for a period of three villages for a month.
In 2013, I decided to Asuma Sirumalai (who likes to call it Asaram Bapu) to defy the government ban and went ahead with the planned Holi celebrations at Nagpur and Kasturchand Park. At a time when most parts of the country is facing a severe drought, Asaram Holi celebrations at Nagpur is lost and alone, more than 50,000 liters of water. Activists and civil society anger and enraged the media gave them the right to broadcast appropriate, to do that was attacked Asaram and a handful of his followers disadvantaged.
Asaram and his followers challenged prohibitive orders and continued to indulge in the festivities, which consumes a lot of water across the state of Maharashtra. Angry intellectuals discuss the right of the futility of his extravaganza where millions waited in vain for several days and walked several miles to get a quarter of the water required.
This Holi Maharashtra government has issued instructions to the urban local bodies to stop the water supply to the organizers of the rain dance and swimming pools. Most municipalities complied with to ensure Holi, citing a lack of water at a very low level in the long-Latour and other parts of western Maharashtra from.
The water situation to be grim and worsened particularly in the areas of Marathwada and Vidarbha in Maharashtra affecting millions of farmers who stand after the devastating drought massive fall crops - it was officially announced by the state government. Of the 39,453 villages in the state, it was announced 23 811 drought-hit.
BCCI decided to hold 20 matches in all parts of the state of Maharashtra in the current season of the Indian Premier League starting April 9. According to the data of water consumption last year capillaries, three playgrounds consumes 60 lakh liters of water during the 2016 season.
There were PILS in the Supreme Court seeking to change the venues for the matches to be held in the state of Maharashtra. Thinkers have described the opposition to the IPL as "the worst kinds of symbolic," I found it hypocritical to why there was no request to stop watering large green areas of the Raj Bhawan or the racetrack Mahalakshmi or emptying swimming pools of the state. Arguments persuasive.
Except that instead of calling IPL because there is wastage can be avoided water in other places, they need to reverse the argument - because there is a severe water crisis currently being faced with the impact of just that in rural areas, it should not IPL be canceled, and must promoter Raj Bhawan Mahalakshmi racetrack and swimming pools of the rich also face the drought.
The burden of maintaining the water can not be all over the countryside is also not only in rural consumption is also. Drought guide applies to both rural as well as urban areas.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in response to the severe drought in California is something to learn from. There are strict guidelines governing watering gardens and washing cars and driveways.
It has been discussing the issue of fairness of water on it to develop professionals for ages. Emphasis was also placed on the need for user groups to participate in water management at various international forums. In the absence of water management simplified, in developing countries such as water for us become a source of social power.
There were articles welcome causing crops things and debate among industry stocks. As my friend Sunil Jain points out, and the sugar cane industry, which consumes a lot of bottled water and consume 2000 liters of water to produce a kilogram of sugar. One kilogram of rice takes 5389 liters of water.
The transformation of sugar cane from Maharashtra to the top and rice from Punjab to West Bengal, a significant reduction in water consumption per kilogram. And that agriculture represents 85 per cent of the water we have used and 60.4 per cent of our land, the time has come for us to do a cost-benefit analysis of this sector. They have become increasingly offer in its current form is not able to survive.
In May, California has been able to reduce their water consumption by 29 per cent against the government's requirement of 25 per cent. California vigilant that trend #DroughtShaming celebrities who indulge in wasteful water, such as watering from farms, lawns and other habits. Peer pressure forced Barbra Streisand let her grass go brown, even actor Tom Selleck got drought shamed when he was found taking water from the fire hydrant to the avocado ranch.
Arguments which mainly revolve around "whataboutery" will not solve the water crisis in the state of Maharashtra and elsewhere. On the other hand, measures such as the transformation of the IPL - whatever tokenstic appearance - will certainly contribute. According Indiaspend's, and the water used for preparing pitches for IPL can provide drinking water for a period of three villages for a month.
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