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Water Futures for India and its neighbours (Pressures in the region…
Water Futures for India and its neighbours
India has insecure water future because...
Considerable supplies provided by 3 of world major rivers but monsoon climate creates extremes of flooding and drought
Rapid pop growth and urbanisation, large rural pop and recent industrialisation = unsustainable demand for water
Political division of major drainage basins not help water management and disputes with neighbouring countries taking place
Pressures in the region
India
Saltwater incursion
Industrial pollution
Drought may worsen
Bangladesh
River floods may increase
Groundwater polluted by arsenic
Conflict over Farakka dam
Nepal
Loss of snowmelt as climate changes
Irrigation losses by evaporation
Pakistan
International conflict over Indus water
Water table falling
Rapid pop growth
Salinisation (irrigation)