International Water Day Imperatives

The ongoing conflict between Punjab and Haryana over Sutlej-Yamuna.Both states have been arguing for several years about their rights and shares of the surplus waters of Ravi and Beas rivers. They have taken each other to court and broken various pacts and agreements, which lead to water scarcity in the country.As we know 75% of the population live in water-stressed regions, third of whom live in water-scarce areas.Due to climatic region , increase in population and requirement in agriculture, increased rate of urbanisation and industrialisation will make worse the water stress.
The Constitution has water as a state subject except the rules to regulate it so the inflation of water-stress requires to ensure fair and equitable allocation and distribution of water in different region according to priorities so that use of water should be in right way .  For balancing water is a basin-based approach and certain assessments also,which will require river basin authorities those are representative of all constituents by experts.Water distribution is most salient issue for India today and the prime thing is allocation of fair share of water for every state according to certain criteria such as size of dependent population,specification of river-basin ,existing water use and demand.For all this magnum opus water distribution we need certain hierarchy of uses.