The Big Picture - India's Worst Water Crisis

India is suffering from ‘the worst water crisis’ in its history with about 60 crore people facing high to extreme water stress and about two lakh people dying every year due to inadequate access to safe water, NITI Aayog said in a report on Thursday. The report, titled ‘Composite Water Management Index’ released by the minister for water resources Nitin Gadkari, further said the crisis is only going to get worse. On this edition of ‘The Big Picture’ we analyse how to deal with the water crisis.

Guests - Nitin Desai, Former Deputy Secretary General, Environment & Development, United Nations (Short Form - Former Dy. S-G, Environment, UN),
Masood Husain, Chairman, Central Water Commission,
Himanshu Thakkar, Water Activist,
Prof. Umesh Kulshrestha, School of Environmental Sciences, JNU
Sanjay Kundu, Joint Secretary (Policy & Planning) Ministry of Water Resources, River Development, GoI,

Anchor - Frank Rausan Pereira

[harshavardhan]

Haven't seen a single jnu professor making valid points on the big picture..

[abhibhatta]

Summary in gist (for only my future ref):
NITI Ayog's Composite Water Index in short said that 70% of water we use is contaminated & warns the future depletion of water by 2030. Will lead to 6% GDP Loss by 2050.
Solutions:
1) To understand the basis of water management
2) To conserve forests, rivers, local water bodies from where the ground water gets recharged as 60% of our needs is fulfilled by Ground water.
3) Restricted & smart use of aquifers
4) Proper govt. action plans like interlinking of rivers between rivers having surplus water and river having scarcity of water, but in a sustainable way and without affecting the environment

[LuciousMaximus]

#Sanjay kundu i think he is perfectly explaining the fact

[LuciousMaximus]

The JNU professor is in the panel after having 2 -3 shorts of VODKA

[Yourstudycentre]

The best part of the Big Picture is, They end their discussions with lots of solutions for the problems.

[vikashkumar]

सर, यदि "द बिग पिक्चर " को हिंदी में भी उपलब्ध करवा दिया जाए या बीच बीच में हिंदी का भी यूज़ हो तो हम हिंदी समझने वालों के लिए भी इस प्रोग्राम को समझना आसान होगा...क्योंकि ये प्रोग्राम हम सब के लिए बहुत ही महत्वपूर्ण है...

[utkarshk]

Why doesn't anybody talk about the distribution of the water guzzling crops like sugarcane and rice?
North West India produces a significant portion of the rice while Maharashtra produces a significant portion of sugarcane, both drought prone regions. Why don't we instead promote these crops in areas that have sufficient water, like Bengal, Bihar and Western UP?

[kartikmallur]

Get only 2-3 panellists, but let them complete their opinions. Himanshu Thakkar should have been given more time to complete his viewpoints

[queenbee]

This was really not expected of a professor from such a prestigious University of the country. How does he teach? Who hired him? He’ll seriously mislead his students.

[yoyohoneysingh]

Himanshu Thakkar 🙏
Dr Umesh first recharges himself by banging table but later comes as a drift blowing everybody 🙏

[anjus]

Nitin Desai sir, all time favourite. Crisps and correct analysis . Wonderful person.
Many relevant points from Mr. Kundu regarding government schemes. Mr. Thakkar made a nice point on Mumbai 's potential for rainwater harvesting .

Rstv great job👍👍

[sourabhmudgal]

Professor to jhoom RHA h could control my laughter !!😂😂

[MJruling]

This is probably the most important issue of our lives which needed more time for discussion... We all need to begin at our homes and use only that much as is necessary.. Nationwide and regional coordinated programme needs to begin.

[sandeepsheoran]

Himanshu raised valid points as well as kept the important debate alive by giving water conservation measures... thanks

[AnjaliSingh-rsyp]

Professor looks drunk.. i was laughing hard at 25:37 😂😂
Edit: no one is judging about his knowledge.. its just the way he presented himself as a panalist...# no offense to jnu or any professor...😅

[vishusharma]

Overall the conclusion of this conversation is that ....we all together have to take a step on water crisis issue...we can not depend on our govt for everything bcz they are doing work on their own way as Mr.Sanjay Kundu said....
So my point is here that we all should aware for the water crisis which is drastically spread all over the india

[chinkeshmeena]

Fabulous panel discussion with excellent panel giving multiple dimensions. indebted to RS TV for such discussion...

[gauravdarade]

It seems Frank shooting for this episode straight after FIFA episode.👍😆

[testmaster]

Nitin Desai sir is making excellent analysis, as always!

[srikarpidaparthi]

Loved the way himanshu thakkar thrashed the panelists