WATER CONSUMPTION AND ITS USE
India is the second most populous country in the world, with more than a billion people in 2030, it will be the first world's most populous country; for this reason, water consumption for production of agricultural and industrial goods is very high, also the governments of large cities have made a gross mismanagement of this resource, causing a water crisis.
The water crisis is growing as quickly as it develops economically, an uncontrolled expansion of cities and a huge agricultural area and thirsting have meant new demands for a public network and mismanaged health services. The combination has caused the water too scarce in some places, which is contaminated in others, or to arrive in a nefarious wealth for millions of people suffering from floods every year.
Nearly two thirds of the Indian population lack adequate sanitation; Due largely to the lack of potable water. Every year in this country die 2.1 million children under five years according to the UN, mainly due to water-borne diseases through.
New Delhi provides water to its population from the Yamuna river, on their way through the capital this water source is biologically dead. It is extracted about 850 million liters per day, but when you leave the capital has become a waste sump, where some 3,600 million liters of wastewater per day are dumped; in an analysis of the river Yamuna is discovered that the level of fecal Coliform, which is a measure of dirt, is 100,000 times greater than the maximum allowed.
