Treating water, forest as Nations assets
Backdrop:
India dominantly has treated Petroleum, minerals, ores as there primary assets as we know we can't eat them it's high time that we start to look water and forest as direct financial assets
Using gold as a means to measure/ evaluate the country's financial strength is possibly not right it's therefore we must view resources that will feed us in times of distress as our financial asset.
We need to put in a process where our water resources and forest resources are directly evaluated to financial assets as gold is used today.
Water mismanagement and how to overcome :
There has been movements to save rivers but doubt that they are addressed in a proper way. one of the major destructions that we are causing to the water bodies by deep boring which results in depletion of underground water and the other factor is we build our homes in the entire plot area without letting the water to seep through just imagine acres and acres of cement floor not allowing water to pass through them.
Difference one home and do:
During 2000s when TamilNadu ground water level went below alarmingly there a was a movement by the state government to harvest the rainwater by a strict rule which every home had to follow and interestingly after 3 years there was 10 to 20% of underground water level increase so it might seem small but if each and every home allocates 5 to 10 feet of area to allow water to pass through them would make a lot of difference to the underground water levels and directly impacting the rivers.