Save water (an elixir of life) & save Animal PlanetProf. M.P.S. Chandrawat
Principal,IET Biotechnology, MIA, Alwar(Raj.)
Water is not only a symbolic combination of the acid (H+)-base (OH-) antithesis characters (H++OH- = H2O) but is also the foundation of life, the heart of our community, and our children’s future. Water not only forms an important commodity for the very survival of humanity but also creates a sustainable biomass based economy. It has no substitute for drinking and irrigating agricultural crops. The flowing water is not steady in dynamics or uniform in composition. Further quality of drinking water is deteriorating hour-by-hour and day-by-day due to the constant discharge of pollutants from a variety of sources into water reservoirs.
One of the biggest environmental challenges that developing countries are fecing today is to balance their increasing demands for safe drinking water with its diminishing availability, whose immediacy and gravity very from region to region. Almost one third of the people in developing world would have a life expectancy of just 40 years if there is a lack of safe drinking water. The grim situation can be assessed by the fact that 200 scientists of United Nations Environmental Program came to the conclusion that water scarcity will contribute 29% and water pollution along with deforestation will contribute 28% of the total grave problems in the current century.
Man’s search for pure water began in prehistoric times. In the present scenario continuous increase in population, rapid pace of urbanization. Industrialization and agricultural modernization are on one hand leading to an ever-increasing demand for water and on the other a decreased supply of safe water, especially in the absence of effective mechanism to monitor and regulate pollution. This is responsible for increasing competition and potential of conflict for possessing natural water resources. With increasing exploitation of ground water, its quality keeps on suffering unless due measures are taken to protect it. Thus pollution of drinking water continues to threaten and plague India. It is essential to nap the disaster at this very Juncture otherwise a horrified situation is bound to arise.
At the United Nations Conference at Mardel Plata in 1977, which launched the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, this philosophy was adopted unambiguously- “All people, whatever their stages of development, social and economic conditions, have the right of access to drinking water in quantities and of a quality equal to their basic needs.” The provision of an adequate supply of safe water was one of the eight major components identified by the International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata in 1978. Throughout history the quantity and quality of water available to man have been vital factors in ascertaining his well-being.
Thus water is a precious commodity and its quality plays an important role for maintaining the public health. The grim situation is that nowadays all over India has been suffering from severe blows of water quality and quantity problems and we have filed to canalize it optimally. It is pity that no worthwhile research work has been carried out to harness this natural resource in potable form cost effectively. Some of public is under the illusion that by the appropriation of large sums of money, the problem can some day be solved. To view environmental pollution in this utopian manner is totally unrealistic. There is nothing simple about controlling environmental quality. A feasible solution will require immediate unselfish political action, education, research, planning, construction and management. The crucial requirement is that sufficient energy and support should be devoted to the task.
To find a way out of this disheartening scenario is a challenge of the hour. For the reasons mentioned above a thoughtful and applied research in this field can be of long-term interest to the researchers and field activists. Such a plight encouraged us who take a keen interest in the field of interdisciplinary applied research. Reviewing the work that has been done so far and is in operation in current years gave us a conviction about the necessity for a more comprehensive work. To reply the social debts and obligations at least partially, we have opted this field for research-based services to the community at large on the following lines with my research group-
(i) Survey of water pollution, pollutants and their hazardous effects
(ii) Investigation of status of drinking water in the chosen field of activity
(iii) Quality assessment of drinking water as per Standards (National & International)
(iv) Statistical zone vise analysis of investigated data
One of the biggest environmental challenges that developing countries are fecing today is to balance their increasing demands for safe drinking water with its diminishing availability, whose immediacy and gravity very from region to region. Almost one third of the people in developing world would have a life expectancy of just 40 years if there is a lack of safe drinking water. The grim situation can be assessed by the fact that 200 scientists of United Nations Environmental Program came to the conclusion that water scarcity will contribute 29% and water pollution along with deforestation will contribute 28% of the total grave problems in the current century.
Man’s search for pure water began in prehistoric times. In the present scenario continuous increase in population, rapid pace of urbanization. Industrialization and agricultural modernization are on one hand leading to an ever-increasing demand for water and on the other a decreased supply of safe water, especially in the absence of effective mechanism to monitor and regulate pollution. This is responsible for increasing competition and potential of conflict for possessing natural water resources. With increasing exploitation of ground water, its quality keeps on suffering unless due measures are taken to protect it. Thus pollution of drinking water continues to threaten and plague India. It is essential to nap the disaster at this very Juncture otherwise a horrified situation is bound to arise.
At the United Nations Conference at Mardel Plata in 1977, which launched the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, this philosophy was adopted unambiguously- “All people, whatever their stages of development, social and economic conditions, have the right of access to drinking water in quantities and of a quality equal to their basic needs.” The provision of an adequate supply of safe water was one of the eight major components identified by the International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata in 1978. Throughout history the quantity and quality of water available to man have been vital factors in ascertaining his well-being.
Thus water is a precious commodity and its quality plays an important role for maintaining the public health. The grim situation is that nowadays all over India has been suffering from severe blows of water quality and quantity problems and we have filed to canalize it optimally. It is pity that no worthwhile research work has been carried out to harness this natural resource in potable form cost effectively. Some of public is under the illusion that by the appropriation of large sums of money, the problem can some day be solved. To view environmental pollution in this utopian manner is totally unrealistic. There is nothing simple about controlling environmental quality. A feasible solution will require immediate unselfish political action, education, research, planning, construction and management. The crucial requirement is that sufficient energy and support should be devoted to the task.
To find a way out of this disheartening scenario is a challenge of the hour. For the reasons mentioned above a thoughtful and applied research in this field can be of long-term interest to the researchers and field activists. Such a plight encouraged us who take a keen interest in the field of interdisciplinary applied research. Reviewing the work that has been done so far and is in operation in current years gave us a conviction about the necessity for a more comprehensive work. To reply the social debts and obligations at least partially, we have opted this field for research-based services to the community at large on the following lines with my research group-
(i) Survey of water pollution, pollutants and their hazardous effects
(ii) Investigation of status of drinking water in the chosen field of activity
(iii) Quality assessment of drinking water as per Standards (National & International)
(iv) Statistical zone vise analysis of investigated data
(v) Identification of problems & their solutions-
(a) Nature of pollutants
(b) Indigenous remedial technologies
(c) Water trade practices and quality control
(d) Saline water treatment
(e) Water borne communicable diseases
(f) Water pollution and aquatic life
(g) Water management practices
(a) Nature of pollutants
(b) Indigenous remedial technologies
(c) Water trade practices and quality control
(d) Saline water treatment
(e) Water borne communicable diseases
(f) Water pollution and aquatic life
(g) Water management practices
(vi) Development of a cost-effective, self-reliant, holistic & eco-friendly model for motivational training & its need felt replication
We are confident that our humble attempts will prove a bacon light in deciding priorities to take preventive actions against the deterioration in water quality & its declining reservoir, and to make availability of potable drinking water as the top most national priority.
We are confident that our humble attempts will prove a bacon light in deciding priorities to take preventive actions against the deterioration in water quality & its declining reservoir, and to make availability of potable drinking water as the top most national priority.
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