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‘Water scarcity has strong bearing on life’
Bangalore,Nov 2,Deccan Herald News Service:

Vice-Chancellor of the Bangalore University, Dr N Prabhu Dev expressed sadness over the increasing water pollution, and said the scarcity of water also had a strong bearing on the economic health of a civilisation and the quality of life.

 The consensus among biodiversity experts at the ‘International Seminar on Water and Biodiversity’ was that climate change had emerged as an aggravating phenomenon, depleting water resources and biodiversity.

Vice-Chancellor of the Bangalore University, Dr N Prabhu Dev expressed sadness over the increasing water pollution, and said the scarcity of water also had a strong bearing on the economic health of a civilisation and the quality of life.  

Professor Dieter Prinz from the German Karlsruhe Institute of Technology touched upon issues such as migration to urban pockets, the increase in population in India and its ramifications on water resources and biodiversity.  

The seminar was organised on Monday by the Department of Civil Engineering, University Visweswaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University
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By: G.srinivas
On: 03 Nov 2009 04:43 pm

Throughout in India the footpaths and other public places should be replaced with water absorbing material foot paths and roads. In bangalore it is shocking in more and more areas no water is getting absorbed it is all just draining out thus in many areas ground water is getting depleted. The crazy and mad many bangaloreasn fully cement their houses inside not leaving even for a grass to spourt but they ahve the udacity to spend gallons of water to wash their hindreds of cars, bikes,etc. Even the storm water darins at regular intervals there should be sand patch so that some water getts sucked down and majority flows. For all industrial and other crazy purposes they all should get only recycled water. All lakes etc . should be recharged and fiortified with greenery and not concrete. Private bore wells digging immediately banned and only Community bore wells encouraged. 100% rain water harvesting in all houses. Tippagiondanhalli should be de silted so also other resrvoirs and more reservoirs and water bodies built. Even in hotels all places in glasses put only that water they drink often people take one glass water sip one drop and throw it to drain really we are unfit to call ourselves humans.

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