Importance Of Water Resources

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Michael Garbachev, the ex-president of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, once said that ‘water has the power to move millions of people’. Earth has water everywhere on the surface, underground, and above the earth in the air. Why is water so important? The simple answer is Water is essential for meeting human needs and wants. It is used directly for drinking, sanitation, and food production, and only slightly less directly for economic output across a very broad range of sectors. There is only 2.5 percent of fresh water share in total global water availability, and it is only 1.2 percent of all fresh water. It is thus a primary basis for sustaining human well-being for generations to come. Dr. Bhumbla, a former Commissioner of Agriculture of India, states, “There is absolutely no doubt that if stress laid on …show more content…

It is not limited only to its physical measure but encompasses other more qualitative, environmental and socio-economic dimensions. In computing pool, a distinction is between renewable and non-renewable water resources.
 Renewable water resources are reckoned by the water cycle they represent the flow of rivers (surface water) and groundwater.
 Non-renewable water resources are groundwater bodies (deep aquifers) that have a negligible rate of recharge.
Water resources management is the process of identification, distribution, and optimum utilization of water resources, for example, construction of a dam for the multipurpose uses like for the production of electricity; facilitate irrigation; fresh drinking water supply for domestic and non-domestic purposes, etc. The water resource management consists of- (i) water treatment and management, (ii) facilitate irrigation to agriculture, (iii) flood water management, and (iv) water conservation and restoration. Thus, it is the necessity of time to well administration and utilization of water resources.

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