‘More than 5700 blocks in country have turn into dark zone’

If the situation remains like this, the world will crave for drinking water: Goyal

Indore (Team Newsbuddy). Jal Chalisa, the water star Ramesh Goyal, who wrote Jal Chalisa for water conservation, said that forests are decreasing due to the civilization moving towards modernization and increasing population. Pollution and temperature are increasing due to cutting of innumerable trees and mechanization. As a result, climate change is taking place due to which either there is excessive rainfall which causes destruction in the form of floods or there is less rainfall due to which water in the rivers is decreasing.

While talking to media persons in the face-to-face program of State Press Club, MP, Goyal of Sirsa, Haryana told that he has written Jal Chalisa on the lines of Hanuman Chalisa in the year 2012, thousands of copies of which have been distributed. Jal Chalisa has also been sung by singer Purnima under the direction of music director Mahavir Mukesh. She has also written the book Jal Manka and Bin Pani Sab Soon, which has 108 Chaupais.

He said that garbage, dirt and poisonous waste is being dumped in most of the rivers of the country which is increasing the shortage of drinking water. Due to excessive groundwater exploitation through tube wells for water supply, the groundwater level is falling. Excessive groundwater exploitation is also a major reason for the earthquakes occurring every day.

He said that more than 60 percent of the 5723 water blocks of the country have gone into the dark zone and the rest are rapidly moving towards the dark zone. A severe drinking water crisis is arising in the entire world including India and the life of animals is in danger. If this situation remains, then half the population will not get drinking water by 2030. Groundwater depletion in Chennai, water depletion in South Africa’s capital Cape Town, 5000 camels shot dead due to water shortage in Australia are some such incidents which clearly point towards the terrible situation caused by water shortage.

He said that the countrymen should think about the feeling of “what can I do” and take a pledge not to waste water. He suggested that the water shortage can be reduced to some extent through rain water harvesting and recharger. Use sprinkler irrigation system in farming and instead of paddy and sugarcane which consume more water, do oilseed and pulse crops and do not cultivate tobacco at all. Take a pledge that you will never let the taps run useless. He said that we all should together make this slogan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi come true that wherever and whenever the rain water falls, we should collect it so that we do not have to say – there was one king, there was one queen and there was only one water.

In the beginning, Goyal presented Jal Chalisa and the book Bin Pani Sab Soon to the media persons. Goyal was welcomed by Praveen Khariwal, Krishnakant Rokde, Ravi Chawla, Devendra Jaiswal, Sudesh Gupta, Deepak Maheshwari. Cartoonist Govind Lahoti ‘Kumar’ presented a caricature.