Answer these questions: 1. Why is crisis of water an acute problem? 2. Name two techniques by which indians harvest water. 3. How do people tap water in meghalaya? In which
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A water crisis is a situation where the available potable, unpolluted water within a region is less than that region's demand.
Water scarcity is being driven by two converging phenomena: growing freshwater use and depletion of usable freshwater resources.
Water scarcity can be a result of two mechanisms: physical (absolute) water scarcity and economic water scarcity, where physical water scarcity is a result of inadequate natural water resources to supply a region's demand, and economic water scarcity is a result of poor management of the sufficient available water resources.
2| Rainwater harvesting.
(ii) Gravity technique.
3 They save water for summers and they collect Water during Rainy Season.
While the concept of water stress is relatively new, it is the difficulty of obtaining sources of fresh water for use during a period of time and may result in further depletion and deterioration of available water resources.Water shortages may be caused by climate change, such as altered weather patterns including.
By the help of rainwater harvesting we can harvest water in India.
In Meghalaya, most of it is untreated tap water, but as source of this water is natural springs, it is expected to be suitable for drinking without treatment.