Lok Sabha Question No. 696 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-11-21
Subject: Water Scarcity in Major Cities
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Uttam Kumar Nalamada Reddy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI, DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 696

ANSWERED ON 21.11 .2019

## WATER SCARCITY IN MA JOR CITIES

## 696. SHRI UTTAM KUMAR REDDY NALAMADA

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government is aware that 21 cities, including Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chenna Delhi are likely to be devoid of ground water by 2020 as stated by NITI Aayog and if so, thereof;

(b) the number of people likely to be affected by this, State/UT - wise;

(c) whether any measures have been taken to replenish these resources and regulate the us water and if so, the details thereof;

(d) if not, the reasons therefor; and

(e) the details of other measures that have been taken to strengthen water security in the co

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI & SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA )

(a) & (b) NITI Aayog, in its report titled 'Composite Water Management Index' published in June 2018, has mentioned that 21 major cities including Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and New Delhi ar  expected to  run  out  of  groundwater  by  2020 affecting  approximately  100  million  people .  This  is  based  on the estimates of annual groundwater replenishment and its extraction. However, it does not take the groundwater availability in the deeper aquifers. Names of such cities as intimated by NITI Aayog ar given at Annexure .

(c) to (e) Practices f or efficient and sustainable management of water resources such as conjuncti surface  water  and  ground  water  resources,  participatory  ground  water  practices,  increasin efficiency amongst others need to be promoted on a large scale by inv olving all the stake - holders to deal with future water demand challenges. Water being a State subject, efforts to initiate suitable dem and  supply  side  interventions  including  conservation  and  management  of  water  resources  is States' resp onsibility. However, steps taken by the Central Government in this regard are at the followin URL: http://mowr.gov.in/sites/default/files/Steps\_t o\_control\_water\_depletion\_Jun2019.pdf .

Central  Ground  Water  Authority  (CGWA)  has  been  constituted  under  Section  3(3)  o 'Environment  (Protection)  Act,  1986'  for  the  purpose  of  regulation  and  control  of  ground  water development  and  management  in  the Country.  CGWA  grants  'No  Objection  Certificates'  (NOC)  for ground water abstraction in 23 States/UTs through guidelines which are modified from time to States  /  UTs  are  regulating  ground  water  development  through  their  own  Acts,  notifi r Government Orders. Further, CGWA has also appointed the District Magistrate / District Co each  Revenue  District  and  Regional  Directors  of  CGWB  in  these  States  as  Authorized  Offic power to enforce compliance of NOC conditions.

Governme nt  of  In dia  launched  Jal  Shakti  Abhiyan, a  time  bound  campaign , with  a  mission mode approach intended to improve water availability including ground water conditions in stressed blocks of 256 districts in India. In this regard, teams of officers from Central Government along -with technical officers from Ministry of Jal Shakti were deputed to visit water stressed work in close collaboration with district level officials to undertake suitable interventions

ANNEXURE Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) & (b) of Unstarred Q. No. 696 to be answered in Sabha on 21.11.2019 regarding 'Water Scarcity in Major Cities'

Cities likely to face water scarcity as per NITI Aayog report

| S.No   | State          | City                                           |
|--------|----------------|------------------------------------------------|
| 1.     | Delhi          | Delhi                                          |
| 2.     | Gujrat         | Gandhinagar                                    |
|        | Haryana        | Gurgaon, Yamunanagar                           |
| 3.     | Karnataka      | Bangalore                                      |
| 4.     | Madhya Pradesh | Indore, Ratlam                                 |
| 5.     | Punjab         | Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mohali, Patiala |
| 6.     | Rajasthan      | Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur                |
| 7.     | Tamilnadu      | Chennai, Vellore                               |
| 8.     | Andhra Pradesh | Hyderabad                                      |
| 9.     | Uttar Pradesh  | Agra, Ghaziabad                                |

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