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Price the water to encourage its
conservation, says experts
Wednesday December 19, 2012 07:05:44 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Saying that
the common man spends around four percent of his average monthly
income on drinking water, experts Wednesday called for pricing
water to encourage the conservation of the fluid.
"We think that we get water for free. But the fact is that we
incur expenses, which are almost four percent of our average
monthly income, on improving the quality of water to make it
drinkable," said Joyashree Roy, member of the Intergovernmental
Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).
Speaking at the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII)-organised
'Water Exposition 2012' here, Roy said the pricing the drinking
water would encourage conservation of the "fast depleting natural
resource".
"Considering the hidden cost we incur on drinking water, if the
government provides quality drinking water at a price, then the
wastage of the fluid can be checked. We diligently use bottled
water, but often waste tap water because it comes free," Roy
added.
Roy said that putting a nominal price on water, in fact, would
help the common man save as much as half the money which he now
spends on filtering and improving the quality of water.
Seconding Roy's view, river water expert Kalyan Rudra called for
using surface water for irrigation instead of ground water.
"Pricing of drinking water will certainly lead to conservation of
ground water, which is now fast depleting. Groundwater should be
allowed to be used only till the replenishment limit," said Rudra,
the environmental advisor to the West Bengal government.
"As irrigation consumes almost 70 percent of the water that is
used, the focus must be on using surface water. Unfortunately,
today the traditional modes of surface water irrigation are no
more in vogue," Rudra lamented.
The experts also urged the government to enact law making
rainwater harvesting mandatory for all buildings that are being
constructed or will be built in the future.
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