Water Scarcity Kashmir

Kashmir Report | Jammu and Kashmir has set a target of September 2022 to provide tap water to every rural household. For this, it has also been submitted

Though drinking water pipelines have reached most of the households in the valley, people are still dependent on water from the public taps or in some extreme cases, long treks to natural streams.

Amid a prolonged dry spell, the water volume in the water bodies of the valley has dropped around 75% than normal, with river Jhelum’s gauge level at Sangam station recording as low as 0.03Ft on Thursday morning.

Water Supply tips; The contamination of drinking water is a widespread environmental issue that affects both humans

The unprecedented floods, droughts, and water-related crises that have occurred in recent years are not unexpected, but rather the result of decades of mismanagement of water by humans, according to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water report.

Climate change in the face of weak climate policy could dramatically reduce freshwater storage in the region, completely crippling water supplies, according to new research.

The air is filled with the sweet fragrance of saffron. There are snow-capped mountains, fruit orchards and splendid lakes that take us back to the 16th century, when the Mughal emperor, Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir, described Kashmir as a paradise on earth.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization released a report warning that climatic changes will affect the availability, quality and quantity of water necessary for the needs of basic human rights

water scarcity are growing in the Jammu and Kashmir, located at the foot of the Himalayas. This has affected thousands of farming families