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This article makes me question all the other alarmist articles that comes up on HN. India is not facing a "Water Apocalypse". Salt water infiltration into gro
by wrong_variable 7y ago
This article makes me question all the other alarmist articles that comes up on HN.
India is not facing a "Water Apocalypse".
Salt water infiltration into groundwater and soil is a harder problem to solve.
Urban/rural India has no system whatsoever to manage water.
The problem is that without some sort of stick, nobody is going to do anything about it and the stick is almost here.
This problem will resolve itself in time, anybody who has been even slightly forward looking would have already invested in water conservation.
Sea Level rise and salt water infiltration in agri land is much more concerning though.
- tomweingarten 7y agoCan you elaborate? I'm reading your argument as "This is not such a big deal because there are other horrifying things that are an even bigger deal", but I'm guessing that's not what you mean. Are you saying this will resolve itself _naturally_ in time? And if so, what gives you confidence?
- wrong_variable 7y ago> "This is not such a big deal because there are other horrifying things that are an even bigger deal" If India was Syria, then it would be a bit more horrifying, as even simple rain harvesting wont solve the problem in Syria. India is filled with problems, let me put it this way, if India was blessed with the amount of freshwater as Canada, India would still misuse it terribly. Its a good thing there is no petroleum. The problem here is not rain, or climate change or drought - but politics, corruption and bureaucracy. India needs its own Meji Restoration - some type of shock therapy - or else the suffering will just continue to get worse.