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Nagaland State and Technology Council (NASTEC), department of Science & Technology has disclosed that nearly 60 percent of the rural population in Nagaland did not have piped water supply. <\/p>\n
NASTEC senior scientist, Dr. Nesatalu Hiese, disclosed this while speaking at an event on water issues in Nagaland under the banner “Leaving no on behind: water for all” organised by North East Network (NEN) at NEN Resource Centre, here Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Dr. Hiese asserted that access to water supply and sanitation infrastructure was increasing, but access to reliable, sustainable and affordable water supply and sanitation service was lagging behind in the state.<\/p>\n
She said the total drinking water requirement for the whole state was 96.26 millions of liters per day (MLD) with urban area requiring 56.30 MLD and rural areas 39.96 MLD. <\/p>\n
Senior scientist pointed out more than 500 villages in the state did even have the water supply of the 25% of the requirement. <\/p>\n
She said only 195 villages in State have 100% percentage water supply as per the status of drinking water in rural areas of Nagaland comprising of 1530 villages as on April 1, 2017.<\/p>\n
Poor water quality due to open defecation, poor waste management and inter-village river disputes with poor management have resulted in a severe water shortage leading to a growing number of conflicts between agricultural users and domestic, she said. <\/p>\n
The senior scientist said the real future concern of the change in the rainfall pattern was the decrease of run-off water, which could affect large agriculture areas. She added that several studies concluded that climate change created conditions that made torrential rainfall more likely, leading to several recent devastating flooding events.<\/p>\n
With the growing population and demands, she said groundwater in many places was being exploited without replenishing it. <\/p>\n
As a result of falling groundwater tables, Dr. Hiese said the flow in rivers would decrease over the years and some of the perennial river would become less\/dry during the non-monsoon season.<\/p>\n
Further, the senior scientist stated that climatic change was expected to seriously affect the available water resources for arable region in the next 30 years. In this regard, she stressed on the need for educating the people on water resources.<\/p>\n
On climatic change, she said the impact of climate change on water availability was crucial as the increase in temperatures will impact water cycle dramatically. Dr. Hiese said increase in temperature would cause people, animals, and plants to consume more water in order to safeguard their lives and the amount of fresh water available for all of those activities could reduce as the Earth warms and competition for water resources increases.<\/p>\n
NEN programme director Wekoweu Tsuhah, speaking on the topic, said the discussion was aimed at examining water issues in the context of Nagaland, and deepen the understanding on the issue and discuss the way forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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