On the water front | The Indian Express

On the water front | The Indian Express

Written by Ashok Gulati |Updated: July 9, 2019 5:46:09 am

The writer is chair professor for agriculture at ICRIER. Views are personal

On the water front

Farmers can be given monetary rewards for saving electricity and water. Water-guzzling crops need to shift to geographically sustainable areas.

No political party wants to touch the rationalisation of power pricing for agriculture. (Illustration by Suvajit Dey)

A one-week delay in the monsoon’s arrival has laid bare the precariousness of India’s water situation. The images of thousands of Chennai residents running after water tankers were telecast by BBC and CNN. Several people had to walk for miles to get drinking water in parched lands. If this was the condition of humans, one can imagine the condition of cattle. These images clearly exposed that the Indian lion, the symbol of Make in India, has feet of clay.