Water Resources PDF

You already know that three-fourth of the WATER SCARCITY AND THE NEED FOR WATER earth’s surface is covered with water, but only CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT a small proportion of it accounts for freshwater that can be put to use. This Given the abundance and renewability of fre...

You already know that three-fourth of the WATER SCARCITY AND THE NEED FOR WATER earth’s surface is covered with water, but only CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT a small proportion of it accounts for freshwater that can be put to use. This Given the abundance and renewability of freshwater is mainly obtained from surface water, it is difficult to imagine that we may run off and ground water that is continually suffer from water scarcity. The moment we being renewed and recharged through the speak of water shortages, we immediately hydrological cycle. All water moves within the associate it with regions having low rainfall hydrological cycle ensuring that water is a or those that are drought prone. We renewable resource. instantaneously visualise the deserts of You might wonder that if three-fourth of Rajasthan and women balancing many the world is covered with water and water is ‘matkas’ (earthen pots) used for collecting a renewable resource, then how is it that and storing water and travelling long countries and regions around the globe suffer distances to get water. True, the availability from water scarcity? Why is it predicted that of water resources varies over space and time, by 2025, nearly two billion people will live in mainly due to the variations in seasonal and absolute water scarcity? annual precipitation, but water scarcity in Reprint 2024-25