Status of our Rivers

With view of warning, the statuses of the water reservoirs are being closely monitored. Storage status of river basins of Ganges, Narmada, Tapi, Mahi, Indus Sabarmati, Godavari, and Mahanadi is better than before.  But rivers in the Gulf of Kutch, Krishna basin and Cauvery basin are deficient than the average of last ten years.  Out of 84 reservoirs, 36 have enough in storage(about80% sufficient). All depends on coming monsoons. Only the Himalayan Rivers originate from glaciers. The other Rivers are rain fed. When agriculture is water dependent, there is fear of exhausting the aquifers, as farmers use motors to draw ground water. It is tricky; if we use up the water for agriculture, we will not even have drinking water. But since agriculture is the only way of living for the farmer, we cannot stop him from using the groundwater. Lowering of the water table only encourages him to use more powerful motors. These desperate actions is leading us to a water crisis.Water below us is being depleted before water table could be replenished.  Unless God blesses us with good rains, all our rain fed rivers would dry up completely. We do not know what we will do.