Freshwater management: Introduction to the domain (A UDA perspective)
Yukti Sharma
MRC Fellow
Key Highlights
- Thoughts on Fresh Water Management, Water Quality Management, Water Resource Management and Sustainability. Issues of Fresh Water Management.
- Present situation covering persistence of difficulties in Fresh Water Management in India, GW Depletion, Plastic pollutions etc. and their resolution schemes.
- Digital transformations, how it connects and may impact the governance mechanism.
- Tropical challenges in using Nordic countries equipment and related challenges.
- Connection to UDA as to how it can solve the recent problems.
- Way forward
The 6th standard science book by NCERT reads “Jal hai to kal hai” i.e., without water, there is no future. It then interestingly puts a fact that only 3% of the water on Earth is fresh water, out of which most of it is frozen in the polar regions as ice caps, and glaciers. There exist a series of early-stage messages in textbooks that have taught us about the importance as well as shortages pf water.
“These early-stage messages seldom repeat themselves in more practical sense to the authorities, when literate population of the country practice wastage and overuse of water.”
Manufacturing and maintenance of luxurious vehicles, brand new clothes, and various other goods and services leave a huge water footprint i.e., they consume large quantities of valuable fresh water. A lot of research on fresh water use and overuse is available which we need to explore and utilise that would lead to better management. Fresh Water Management deals with sustainably using our fresh water sources with respect to its quality as well as quantity.
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Yukti Sharma
MRC Fellow
She is currently working as a Fellow at MRC, is a consistent and opportunist individual who did her Bachelors in Environmental Engineering from Delhi Technological University. She is currently pursuing MTech in Water Resource Engineering and Management. A keen learner and an excellent observer, she likes to be on the brighter side of things. She joined MRC to expand her learning to a higher, unmatchable levels, with the support and knowledge of the professional guides. She has done research on Evaluation of a Bio-signal ring in reduction of air pollution levels during her bachelors. She has two papers published in different international journals, one of which is Crimson Publications (RDMS). She is looking forward to work for the environment with the existing governance as well as define new meanings to the governance itself to act suitably on what is necessary.