Ignite -Irrigation
ByAnjan Kumar AshIIM-Shillong
Thus let us come out of the Myopic View of managing Irrigation only:The cheap commodity WATER itself is in danger
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Lets manage thatkeeping IRRIGATIN as the focal point
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It Takes
…
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10 liters of water to make a sheet of PAPER
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80 liters of water per dollar of INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT
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120 liters of water to make one glass of WINE
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1300 liters of water to make one kilogram of WHEAT
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Municipalities commonly lose as much as 50% of their water supplythrough leaky infrastructure
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Every year global agricultural wastes an estimated 60 percent of the 2500trillion liters it uses
From Irrigation to Water Management
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It is said
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The Third World War would be fought for water
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When we say Water, instead of Irrigation, we can relate to the need of preserve and maintain it
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Thus DIRECT stakeholders of WATER are much more in number (in factequal to
world’s
population) than that of IRRIGATION
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Thus we should substitute
“Irrigation”
with the phrase
“WaterManagement”
and keep Irrigation as a major part of this
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The model proposed here will invite each and every one of us to take careof the problems
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Irrigation Anjan Ash IIM Shillong
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