{"id":9063,"date":"2013-03-22T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T06:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=9063"},"modified":"2013-03-22T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T06:50:13","slug":"is-kerala-on-a-path-to-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/is-kerala-on-a-path-to-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Day Special- Ways to Conserve Water!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, 783 million people do not have access to safe water. Around 6 to 8 million people die annually as a consequence of disasters and water-related diseases. The <strong>World Water Day is celebrated on March 22<\/strong> to focus people\u2019s attention on freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.\u00a0On this World Water Day, let&#8217;s take a look at the water scarcity problems faced by our state.<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"Kerala plunging to Drought\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/kerala-plunging-to-drought\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Is Kerala on a path to drought?<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Drought looming over Trivandrum\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/drought-looming-over-trivandrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drought looming over Trivandrum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The recent reports on the drying up of dams in Kerala point to the alarming situation of water scarcity in the coming months. We are relying on the three rainy seasons (Edvapathi, Thulavarsham and Venal Mazha) to tide over the drought like situation. If the rains fail as happened in the previous seasons, the scenario will look very grim indeed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Subash Chandra Bose of CCDU under Water Resource Department<\/strong> says there is an urgent need to think of measures to overcome the drought. The first priority should be given to preserving the existing water bodies without polluting them. Here, people have a tendency to dispose of waste including animal waste conveniently to the nearest river or lake. Such practices need to be stopped. Also care should be taken to keep our wells clean.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"\u201cWater conservation a top priority\u201d says CCDU Director Dr. Subhash Chandra Bose\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/water-conservation-a-top-priority-says-ccdu-director-dr-subhash-chandra-bose\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWater conservation a top priority\u201d says CCDU Director Dr. Subhash Chandra Bose<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In summer, people should refrain from wasting precious water unnecessarily on cleaning cars, houses and watering the garden. We should also learn to conserve the rain water effectively. People often complain against the government during such moments of crisis. But it\u2019s time that we also take responsibility and take initiatives for saving our state from the verge of drought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not take everything in nature for granted. To know nature and live by its rules should be our mantra\u201d says Dr. Subash Chandra Bose<\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s urgency to solve safe water issues, there is too much emphasis on immediate reactions and short-term fixes. Sustainable water conservation requires time, creativity, and innovation. Let\u2019s work together to build a lasting future.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"watch-headline-title\">&#8216;Nalla nadu Nalla vellam&#8217; Campaign by CCDU<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W2ZifsCKQ5E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"520\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, 783 million people do not have access to safe water. Around 6 to 8 million people die annually as a consequence of disasters and water-related diseases. The World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 to focus people\u2019s attention on freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.\u00a0On this World Water Day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[35,452],"class_list":["post-9063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kerala","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}