Water is vital to all functions of life. However, its availability is increasingly threatened. Clean and safe drinking water is scarce and billions of population in the developing world today don't have access to it. About 80% of diseases in the developing world are water-related. At least 1.8 million children under five die every year due to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation, and a lack of hygiene. Diarrheal disease in children under 15 has a greater impact than HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The world over, ground water tables are falling, however withdrawals have tripled over the last 50 years. By 2030 global water demand could be 40% more than the current supply. Asia has 60% of the world’s population but only 28–30% of its freshwater. India feeds 17% of the world’s people on less than 5% of the world’s water resource and 3% of its farmland. Nature also needs sufficient water to be viable to support all life. Agriculture accounts for 70% of human usage of freshwater. Such water demands will increase to feed growing populations. Hence, prevailing scenario could lead to several billion people living in water-stressed areas by 2050. Regional as well as cross-border water-related conflicts are already taking place and as said, could be a cause of Third World War. It is, therefore, several actions and innovations are needed to avoid future conflicts over water among nations and, within nations, among farmers, urbanites, energy producers, environmentalists, and industries. Development planning should integrate the lessons learned from producing more food with less water via drip irrigation, seawater greenhouse and precision agriculture, rainwater collection and irrigation, watershed management selective introduction of water pricing, and successful community-scale projects around the world. Plans should also help convert degraded or abandoned farmlands to forest or grasslands; invest in household sanitation, reforestation, water storage, and treatment of industrial effluents in multipurpose water schemes; and construct eco-friendly dams, pipelines, and aqueducts to move water from areas of abundance to those of scarcity.

Critical question to answer in Indian context. Not in single hand to tackle.

Yogesh mentioned all details.

First of all Central Govt. should take proper initiative. Nowadays problems are being increased, just because of political gimmicks.

Interstate River Water Disputes Act, 1956 (IRWD Act) http://www.archive.india.gov.in/sectors/water_resources/index.php?id=14

We had seen many tribunals

Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal, Godavari Water Disputes Tribunal, River water disputes in Telangana state, Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal report, Bachawat tribunal etc.etc.

Everybody should know what is the outcome and benefits!?!?

Have a look at the link is very nice document to read, if we could follow sincerely that is great

http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/11th/11_v3/11v3_ch2.pdf

India has severe rainfall problems (natural calamities), no one can control. Amazing thing during harvest season we see depressions, everything oust. Prices increase.

I think if we store the rain water properly rather than damns by constructing tanks at different places certainly we could come out of some problems.

Environment protection & Pollution control board should take proper/strict care not to pollute the rivers etc. by industrial effluents.