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clean drinking water is a much more challenging problem. This is not merely the Govts. fault. People do not want to share existing water with other people and a

clean drinking water is a much more challenging problem. This is not merely the Govts. fault. People do not want to share existing water with other people and as economy is highly dependent on agriculture groundwater depletion is a serious issue. Most water in India (except Northern part) comes during the 4 months of monsoon. Large scale irrigation projects have a lot of environmental hurdles to overcome here unlike China yet quite a few of them are being worked on rapidly. Most of central India is a plateau and one ambitious plan involved pumping excess flood water in North India during monsoon onto the plateau and transporting it to the South. People are working on many different solutions to the problems as can be done practically.

shripadk 6y ago
> Large scale irrigation projects have a lot of environmental hurdles to overcome here unlike China Which is a good thing in my opinion. These projects have to be scrutinized thread bare to ensure that they don't degrade the environment. Just look at what is happening in China with the Three Gorges Dam and the flooding of the Yangtze river. People who had land, houses on either side of the river are seeing lands washed away by these floods. Millions were evacuated. Such projects, though provide short term economic benefit, might end up harming the entire ecosystem around it. I am not saying that you shouldn't do anything about it. Just that it should be done after careful scrutiny. We are not a dictatorship. That is both a boon and a curse. A curse because we can't be as fast as China is in taking decisions. But a boon because we do whatever we do with as much consensus as possible. By not negating stakeholders and by trying to bring as many of them as possible to the table.