Shakti DubeyAIR 1 · CSE 2024 · 182 wordsTheir whole copy
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According to NITI Aayog's composite water management Index, out of total fresh water resource that India has (2.4% of global resource) only 28% of it is utilisable - which calls for it's efficient management.
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Water use efficiency in agri sector!
(1) Certain government policies and programs like → Green Revolution → MSP for water intensive crops, etc have had unintended consequence in form of → stress on water resource.
(2) Along with climate change the issue has become more challenging.
(3) Thus - instead of increasing the utilisation of water our focus should be increasing water use efficiency.
steps to use water use efficiency :- (1) Use of microirrigation techniques (2) use of drip irrigation to ensure targetted delivery of water (3) Growing crops based on environmental condition. (4) International best practices eg:- Israel's root zone watering system (5) Government should regulate subsidies on water & subsidy in electricity to avoid over-exploitation.
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This will not only improve productivity, but also avoid issues like leaching of fertilizers to groundwater, alkalisation of soil, etc and will also decrease the fiscal burden on the government.