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Water scarcity in India, the Glossary

Water scarcity in India is an ongoing water crisis that affects nearly hundreds of million of people each year.^[1]

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Agriculture in India

The history of agriculture in India dates back to the Neolithic period.

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Ahmednagar

Ahmednagar (officially Ahilya Nagar) is a city in, and the headquarters of, the Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India, about northeast of Pune and from Aurangabad.

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The Arabian Sea (हिन्दी|Hindī: सिंधु सागर, baḥr al-ʿarab) is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea and the Maldives, on the southwest by Somalia.

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Baseflow

Baseflow (also called drought flow, groundwater recession flow, low flow, low-water flow, low-water discharge and sustained or fair-weather runoff) is the portion of the streamflow that is sustained between precipitation events, fed to streams by delayed pathways.

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Bay of Bengal

The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean.

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Bhopal

Bhopal (ISO: Bhōpāla) is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Central Pollution Control Board

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India is a statutory organization under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Mo.E.F.C.C.). It was established in 1974 under the Water (Prevention and Control of pollution) Act, 1974.

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Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

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Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board

Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, known shortly as CMWSSB, is a statutory board of Government of Tamil Nadu which provides water supply and sewage treatment to the city of Chennai and its metropolitan region.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Climate of India

The climate of India consists of a wide range of weather conditions across a vast geographic scale and varied topography.

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Coast

A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Coastal reservoir

A Coastal reservoir is a type of reservoir to store fresh water in a dammed area of a coastal sea near a river delta.

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Desalination

Desalination is a process that removes mineral components from saline water.

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Dissolved load

Dissolved load is the portion of a stream's total sediment load that is carried in solution, especially ions from chemical weathering.

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Drip irrigation

Drip irrigation or trickle irrigation is a type of micro-irrigation system that has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either from above the soil surface or buried below the surface.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Environment of India

The environment of India comprises some of the world's most biodiverse ecozones.

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Environmental flow

Environmental flows describe the quantity, timing, and quality of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human livelihoods and well being that depend on these ecosystems.

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Fresh water

Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.

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Ganges

The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Groundwater

Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

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Hindu mythology

Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and ''Divya Prabandham'', and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian rivers interlinking project

The Indian rivers interlinking project is a proposed large-scale civil engineering project that aims to effectively manage water resources in India by linking rivers using a network of reservoirs and canals to enhance irrigation and groundwater recharge and reduce persistent floods in some parts and water shortages in other parts of the country.

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Indian water policy

National Water Policy is formulated by the Ministry of Water Resources of the Government of India to govern the planning and development of water resources and their optimum utilization. Water scarcity in India and Indian water policy are water in India.

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Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.

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Interstate River Water Disputes Act

The Interstate River Water Disputes Act, 1956 (IRWD Act) is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted under Article 262 of Constitution of India on the eve of reorganization of states on linguistic basis to resolve the water disputes that would arise in the use, control and distribution of an interstate river or river valley.

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Irrigation

Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.

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Irrigation in India

Irrigation in India includes a network of major and minor canals from Indian rivers, groundwater well based systems, tanks, and other rainwater harvesting projects for agricultural activities. Water scarcity in India and Irrigation in India are water supply and sanitation in India.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jats

The Jat people are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan.

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Kalpasar Project

The Kalpasar Project or the Gulf of Khambhat Development Project envisages building a 30 km dam across the Gulf of Khambat in India for establishing a huge fresh water coastal reservoir for irrigation, drinking and industrial purposes.

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Kolathur, Salem

Kolathur is a medium-sized town in Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Latur

Latur is a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and is one of the largest cities of the Marathwada region.

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List of dams and reservoirs in India

This page shows the state-wise list of dams and reservoirs in India.

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List of drainage basins by area

The list of drainage basins by area identifies basins (also known as "catchments" or, in North American usage, "watersheds"), sorted by area, which drain to oceans, mediterranean seas, rivers, lakes and other water bodies.

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List of rivers by discharge

This article lists rivers by their average discharge measured in descending order of their water flow rate.

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List of rivers of India

This is a list of rivers of India, starting in the west and moving along the Indian coast southward, then northward.

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List of rivers of India by discharge

There are 8 major river systems in India, with more than 400 rivers in total.

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Madurai

Madurai, formerly known by its colonial name Madura is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Mettur

Mettur is an industrial and tourist town located in the Salem district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation was a ministry of the Government of India formed in 2011. Water scarcity in India and ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation are water supply and sanitation in India.

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Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

The Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation was the apex body for formulation and administration of rules and regulations relating to the development and regulation of the water resources in India.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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Munak canal

The Munak Canal is a 102 kilometer long aqueduct that is part of Western Yamuna Canal in Haryana and Delhi states in India.

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Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the current Prime Minister of India since 26 May 2014.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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NITI Aayog

The NITI Aayog (abbreviation for National Institution for Transforming India) serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India, and the nodal agency tasked with catalyzing economic development, and fostering cooperative federalism and moving away from bargaining federalism through the involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policy-making process using a bottom-up approach.

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North India

North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.

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Other Backward Class

The Other Backward Class (OBC) is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify communities that are educationally or socially backward.

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Polavaram Project

The Polavaram Project is an under construction multi-purpose irrigation project on the Godavari River in the Eluru District and East Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh.

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Pollution of the Ganges

The ongoing pollution of the Ganges, the largest river in the Indian subcontinent, poses a significant threat to human health and the environment. Water scarcity in India and pollution of the Ganges are water pollution in India.

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Rainwater harvesting

Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the collection and storage of rain, rather than allowing it to run off.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Sacred waters

Sacred waters are sacred natural sites characterized by tangible topographical land formations such as rivers, lakes, springs, reservoirs, and oceans, as opposed to holy water which is water elevated with the sacramental blessing of a cleric.

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Saemangeum Seawall

The Saemangeum Seawall, on the south-west coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring.

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Startup company

A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model.

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Supreme court

In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts.

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UNICEF

UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Wastewater

Wastewater (or waste water) is water generated after the use of freshwater, raw water, drinking water or saline water in a variety of deliberate applications or processes.

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Water conservation

Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand.

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Water crisis

Water crisis could refer to.

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Water pollution

Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses.

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Water pollution in India

Water pollution refers to the contamination of water bodies (such as rivers, lakes, oceans, groundwater) by harmful substances or pathogens, making them unfit for human use or harmful to aquatic life. Water scarcity in India and water pollution in India are water in India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity_in_India

Also known as Causes of water scarcity in India, Effects of water scarcity on wildlife in India, India's water scarcity problem, Water scarcity in India effects on animals, Water shortages in India.

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Water scarcity in India, the Glossary

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See also

Water in India

Water pollution in India

Water scarcity

Water supply and sanitation in India

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