Volume : VI, Issue : IX, September - 2017

RURAL WATER SUPPLY IN KARNATAKA STATE - A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY

Dr. C. Mallanna

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 Water is one of the most precious natural resources and a key element I the socio-economic development of a country. Nothing will quench thirst the way water can. Water is the essential part of the modern day life. The total quantity of water available on the globe is the same as it was two thousand years ago. It is important to appreciate the fact that only 3 per cent of the world’s water is fresh and roughly one – third of it is inaccessible. The rest is very unevenly distributed and the available supplies are increasingly contaminated with water and pollution from industries, agriculture and households.

At the time of independence, the per capita availability of water in India was, 6008 cubic meters a year. It came down to 5,177 cubic meters a year in 1951 and to 1,820 cubic meters a year in 2001. According to mid – term appraisal (MTA) of the 10th plan, per capita availability of water is likely to fall down to 1,340 cubic meters in 2025, and 1,140 cubic meters in 2050. Former UN Secretary General, Boutros Ghali had warned in 1980’s that future war could be fought over water. Ismael Serageldin,vice President , World Bank, had predicted in 1995 that “If wars of this century were fought over oil, wars of the next century will be fought over water”. It is now feared that “Third World War is fought, will not be fought for territorial gains or political supremacy but of water”

Karnataka accounts for about six percent of the country’s surface water resources of 17 lakh million cubic meters. After independence, demand for water had been increasing at an alarming rate due to rapid growth of population, agricultural development, urbanization, industrialization, etc. These developments have led to several inter-state disputes about shå of these rivers like Cauvery water dispute between Karnataka, TimalNadu and Kerala

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Dr.C.Mallanna, RURAL WATER SUPPLY IN KARNATAKA STATE‾A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6, ISSUE-9, SEPTEMBER-2017


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