Tick Tok Tick Tok: Corporates share in Water Crisis
Aradhya Kapoor
Communications and Advocacy team of the Maritime Research Centre
Key Highlights
- Water, a shared resource, has varied users that lead to multidimensional issues associated with its quality and quantity.
- India, despite using only 4% of the available global freshwater, has over 1.63 crore people lacking access to clean water and sanitation.
- Forward going corporations have taken charge of building a sustainable ecosystem by focusing on Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) pillars.
- Further, by leveraging the Underwater Domain Awareness (UDA) framework, corporations can identify human activities’ impact and mitigate them to drive a sustainable change.
As doctors say drinking 7-8 liters is essential for mankind’s health, however, will leaky taps and long showers help us to maintain this habit? How long is it before we start paying for water or guard it in locks? Are we taking water, as a resource, for granted? Are we ready to pay the price for our actions? Water, a shared resource, has multiple users as well as its issues are multidimensional ranging from quality, quantity, and is dynamic through space and time (varies across geographical regions).
India is the second most populated country with 138 crore people, using one quarter of available global freshwater. However, 16.3 crore of them lack access to clean water, 21 crore lack access to sanitation and 21% communicable diseases are linked to unsafe water as per World Bank reports, thereby increasing the economic burden.
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Aradhya Kapoor
Communications and Advocacy team of the Maritime Research Centre
Aradhya works in the communications and advocacy team of the Maritime Research Centre (MRC), Pune. She completed her post-graduation in Life Sciences at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.