what are the causes of drought in Maharashtra in 2016?
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Severe drought conditions prevail at the moment in at least 10 states in India. Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana are all staring at a bleak summer, already experiencing severe water shortage, with at least two months to go for the monsoons.
But droughts are not unique to India. Rich and poor nations across the world are hit by all sorts of calamities, every year, due to reasons such as climate change, the El Nino phenomenon, failed monsoons, unseasonal rains, among others.
The burning question isn’t so much why India is buckling under drought and water shortage, but rather why are the Centre and state governments so paralyzed when it comes to dealing with such crises year after year, and why are they so inept at alleviating human suffering. Such is the state of affairs that the Maharashtra government is preoccupied with preventing large numbers of weary and thirsty people thronging water tankers in order to avert water riots.
While the frequency of extreme weather events is rising because of climate change, experts say that the prevailing crisis is a combination of governance and policy failures which go back decades, and the apathy of the Indian state to the suffering of the poor.
Rajendra Singh, the famous water conservationist from drought-hit Rajasthan, who won the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize, said that India’s “manmade drought” is the result of the Indian government’s non-seriousness about water security.
“You have a reserve police, you have a reserve army, but you have no reserve water,” he said. “This is the biggest policy failure.”
Experts raised questions such as why is the state so heavily dependent on rainfall when it has the highest number of dams in India and the highest expenditure on irrigation. Why is irrigation mostly in areas where sugarcane is cultivated, leaving the rest of the crops at the mercy of the rains. Why is the state growing a water guzzling crop like sugarcane?
Describing the disaster as a “governance failure,” N.C. Saxena, former secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development, said that states do not have carefully considered strategies to handle the crises which made it hard for them to cope.
But droughts are not unique to India. Rich and poor nations across the world are hit by all sorts of calamities, every year, due to reasons such as climate change, the El Nino phenomenon, failed monsoons, unseasonal rains, among others.
The burning question isn’t so much why India is buckling under drought and water shortage, but rather why are the Centre and state governments so paralyzed when it comes to dealing with such crises year after year, and why are they so inept at alleviating human suffering. Such is the state of affairs that the Maharashtra government is preoccupied with preventing large numbers of weary and thirsty people thronging water tankers in order to avert water riots.
While the frequency of extreme weather events is rising because of climate change, experts say that the prevailing crisis is a combination of governance and policy failures which go back decades, and the apathy of the Indian state to the suffering of the poor.
Rajendra Singh, the famous water conservationist from drought-hit Rajasthan, who won the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize, said that India’s “manmade drought” is the result of the Indian government’s non-seriousness about water security.
“You have a reserve police, you have a reserve army, but you have no reserve water,” he said. “This is the biggest policy failure.”
Experts raised questions such as why is the state so heavily dependent on rainfall when it has the highest number of dams in India and the highest expenditure on irrigation. Why is irrigation mostly in areas where sugarcane is cultivated, leaving the rest of the crops at the mercy of the rains. Why is the state growing a water guzzling crop like sugarcane?
Describing the disaster as a “governance failure,” N.C. Saxena, former secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development, said that states do not have carefully considered strategies to handle the crises which made it hard for them to cope.
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The causes of drought in Maharashtra in 2016 were because of water scarcity due to deficient rainfall from the southwest monsoon season.
Explanation:
- Global warming and the hot and dry conditions during summer have led to strong heat waves that are drying up the water surfaces in the country.
- Places in Maharashtra are facing the brunt with deficit rainfall.
- There are some places in the interiors of Maharashtra that receive scanty rainfall and do not even have any major rivers flowing through the region, due to which there is a deficit of water.
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