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  • 1/10/2025
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00:00What is the reason for the water scarcity in Vesavi, Hyderabad?
00:05Basically, as we all know,
00:07in the year 2023, due to the influence of El Nino,
00:13the rainfall was less than usual,
00:15and due to the high temperature,
00:19we had water scarcity.
00:21So, in the following year, in the next year, in the year 2024,
00:25we had more rainfall than usual, because of La Nina.
00:29However, here, even though the rainfall was less than usual,
00:34in cities like Hyderabad,
00:35first of all, in India,
00:39urban migration is increasing very fast.
00:42Urban migration from rural areas is increasing a lot.
00:46Another important thing is, in cities like Hyderabad,
00:49we say it is a rapidly growing, most happening, rapidly growing city.
00:53Here, as you said, the sky is increasing.
00:57So, the density of population is increasing.
01:00So, what happens due to this is, no matter how much rainfall we get,
01:04actually, the rainfall we get is almost 80%.
01:09Moreover, the rainfall water runs off.
01:12So, here, basically, what we need to know is,
01:15in water conservation,
01:18there is no management kind of thing.
01:20We are only looking at water as an administrative resource.
01:26So, we don't have any kind of control over it.
01:32So, people think that the government is responsible for it.
01:36But the government is responsible for the people.
01:39So, there is no proper coordination between the two.
01:41So, what happens due to this is,
01:43we don't manage the rainfall water properly.
01:46Then, we don't properly dutch our rivers.
01:53The third thing is,
01:54there are many streams.
01:56All the streams become polluted.
01:58In the streams, we send drainage water.
02:02Then, there is a lot of pollution in the streams.
02:04There is no water body.
02:06Then, the urban area becomes a concrete jungle.
02:09We don't protect the rainfall water at 80%, it runs off.
02:15Even if it rains a little, it comes on the roads.
02:19So, it becomes urban clogging.
02:21There are many situations.
02:23So, recently, we saw the government.
02:26After coming here, in urban Hyderabad,
02:28where there is rainwater clogging,
02:31they identified the rainwater wells and big water sumps.
02:37But, in the volume of water in Hyderabad,
02:40in GHMC or Hyderabad Metro Development Authority areas,
02:44or in HMW, SSB, or any other territory,
02:47in all these territories,
02:50we have 30 TMCs of rainwater available.
02:55But, if we add all these sumps,
02:57it is very difficult to store even 2% water.
03:01Mr. Ramachandran, how much rainfall is there in Hyderabad?
03:05How much rainwater can we protect?
03:08In Hyderabad,
03:10if we average in the last 10 years,
03:14we can see that the rainfall is increasing.
03:17In Hyderabad, the rainfall is about 100 cm.
03:21We can see this from the rain gauge.
03:27Even if there is a little variation,
03:29we can say that there is an average of 1 m rainfall.
03:36So, the problem that we are facing now,
03:38as Mr. Karunanidhi said,
03:40no matter how much rainfall there is,
03:43or how much rainfall there is,
03:46it is the same problem.
03:50How do we manage it?
03:52In some areas, like Dilsukhnagar, Bodapal,
03:57even Madhapur,
03:59even when the rainfall is very low,
04:01we are not able to do anything special in those areas.
04:05So, everyone has a different way of thinking.
04:09Many people have a thought that how much we will be happy if the rainwater goes away as soon as possible.
04:15No one has the thought of keeping the rainwater in their homes,
04:19in their campus, in their apartment, in their open areas.
04:25Do you have a solution for the way you are arranging the waste in every colony and every road?
04:35It is a little difficult to say about the waste.
04:37There are two problems in this.
04:39Land use means the waste that is thrown on the surface of the earth,
04:43or the waste that is thrown by animals or humans,
04:46when that rainwater falls on the earth, it becomes polluted.
04:50If we use such water to recharge the groundwater,
04:54the groundwater can also be polluted.
04:57So, where do we recharge it?