Extending Awareness and Ideas to Save Water for Future

Abstract

Water, surface or underground, fresh, brackish or marine, sustains life, serving as an important ingredient of protoplasm. In fact, water is life, river is lifeline and ocean is the womb of mother earth. It is needless to say that we need to keep water clean for everyday use for various purposes and we also need to save water for our future generation. We need to take adequate care of water in every possible ways and hence this communication to express our concern. But how we can save water for us and for our future generation!

Here we attempt to offer certain approaches that can be adopted and expressed and can create and extend awareness to prevent pollution of water, restoration of water bodies and upkeep of aquatic ecosystem health of the earth and especially of India. In this context, we not only need to take care of water pollution, but we need to take care of air, land and all life forms and life support systems those exist, linked with water as wonderful web of life. Herein we share our ideas as follows:

• To adopt ecosystem approach of management for all kind of water resources.

• To prevent industrial pollution, oil spill and also pollution of air, land and water to arrest settling of air suspended particulate matter and surface runoff of into water.

• To prevent eutrophication, bioaccumulation and biomagnifcation in aquatic ecosystem yielding hazards to human life.

• To prevent abuse of water resources and waste of tap water in domestic and municipal supply systems and also in agricultural irrigation systems.

• To document, quantify and monitor water resource systems, water quality and its health status at regular interval to understand the changes in aquatic environments.

• To promote social and environmental education amongst school children.

• To create awareness in protection, preservation and restoration of aquatic environment, refecting worship of water ingrained in the cultural tradition of India.

• To undertake environmental awareness programmes involving students in the contest on how to save water for future.

• To share approaches and ideas of saving water organizing seminar, symposia, workshop, etc., amongst the scientifc community and also at panchayat level.

• To lend hands in cleanliness of local environment and water resource systems.

• To encourage rain water harvesting and allowing scope for recharge of ground water.

• To help reduce global warming, climate change and sea level rise.