February has not even passed, while drought has started appearing in Bengaluru. If the situation remains the same, there can be an outcry in the city in summer. Many measures are being taken to control this, such as imposing fine and appeal to people to save water. This was not always the case in Bengaluru. At one time there were lakes and rivers all around here, which have now dried up. So is this the beginning of becoming a desert of Bengaluru!
What is the situation now
According to Ram Prasad Manohar, president of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), the South-East, Whitefield and the outskirts may have the highest water crisis. Explain that these are areas that depend on ground water. Apart from this, all such parts were identified in the study, where the summer can create a trinity. After this, the Jal Board left ground water and appealed for more use of water of Cauvery connection. Along with this, a fine of five thousand rupees was also put on the waste of water.
Let me tell you that in view of the water crisis, a special task force was formed at the behest of Deputy CM DK Shivkumar, which said in a six -month study that dependence on ground water of Bengaluru is continuously increasing and 800 million liters of water is being extracted daily. Is. But what is it that the water scarcity in the city is increasing? To understand this, let’s look into history once.
The rulers made lakes
Bengaluru was not naturally rich in lakes. In such a situation, the rulers who settled it made separate arrangements to save water. In this, one was the construction of lakes. In the 16th century, a powerful feudal Nadprabhu Kepagauda of the Vijayanagara Empire laid the foundation of the city. While settling the city in a very organized manner, Kepegowda built many lakes and ponds. Different records claim that there were more than thousand small and big lakes here. Even there was a network of drains to connect them. As soon as there was more water in one lake, it would go into another. Due to this, water used to remain here throughout the year.
Continuous encroachment
By the middle of the 20th century, 262 lakes remained in Bengaluru. But with time it also decreased rapidly. Lakes started to be filled to build big apartments, IT parks and roads. During the seventies, many large places were made by filling the lakes, such as the Koramangla lake was converted into sports complex and today is the Kantirwa Stadium instead of Sampangi Lake. The lakes that remained remained, there was no life in them. She started playing with dirty water and plastic. Now less than 20 lakes are left here, in which water will be seen in the rain itself.
But is the city drying due to drying with lakes
This is not the only reason. Half the water of the city with a population of about 13 million is fulfilled by ground water, while the rest of the water is brought from the Kaveri River. Since bringing the water of the river is quite expensive and not even its availability everywhere, people started getting borewells. As the population increased, the need also increased, which affected the water. Now the situation is that there are also 1500 feet deep borewells in many places so that water can be found. But due to less rain, this water is also drying up very deep.
Why there is less rain here
Bangalore is situated at a height of a much height from the sea. Since this is not a coastal city, the monsoon weakens here. The lack of rainfall has a direct impact on ground water. But then the question comes that the rain is less in many states, then why does the water crisis not see here? So the nature of ground water in Karnataka is different from other places. For example, the land here is rocky, which does not absorb water. Due to this, a flood -like situation comes only when a little water falls and soon this water also disappears.
The city gets water in two ways
Through the Cauvery pipeline, and from borewell. Since ground water is drying up, the population dependent on the bore comes in shortage as soon as summer comes. Even at a heavy price, tankers cannot get water. Last year, the deputy CM had given the statement that the borewell had dried up in his own house. According to a report in Aljjira, the Center had expressed apprehension in the year 2018 that 40 percent of the population of Bengaluru would not get drinking water by the end of decade.
So what is the beginning of day-gir?
Day-geero means when the water at some place reaches the verge of completely eliminating. Then the population there has to struggle for the smallest need. In the year 2018, Cape Town of South Africa was the first city in the world, which had reached close to the day-girlfriends. The water crisis here deepened that people started being given certain water everyday.
There is an interesting incident then. It is a matter of January, when there was a cricket match between Africa and India. The rules were also implemented in hotels and stadiums there amidst strict water ban. Players also had limited water supply for bathing. The swimming pool and laundry in the hotel were closed. Cape Town could get out of it after heavy ban and effort. But now our city is in its JD.
Can Bangalore become a desert
When water scarcity in an area and erosion of trees starts increasing, then this fear increases. This process is called desertification. This fear cannot be denied even in the case of the city. According to scientists, the area where less than 25 centimeters of rainfall in a year is considered a desert. The average rainfall in India is 120 cm, which is formed by mixing different months. Where the average rain is reduced to a few percent, it starts to be called desert area.
There are many examples in history, which turned into a green area desert. If you take Sahara, then there was greenery here thousands of years ago, but due to global warming, this place turned into the world’s most desert. Aral Sea of ​​Uzbekistan was considered to be the fourth largest lake in the world, but the misuse of excessive cultivation and water resources became the lake sand ground.