Friday, 28 June 2019

Desalinization: The Urban Water Stress Reliever




The availability water, undoubtedly limits scope of human activities in any region. Water is the baton in the energy cycle, which maintains everything as we know today. However, we seem to be programmed to maintain a careless attitude towards this elixir of life. 

Despite increasing awareness of consequences of our consumption pattern, we remain opulent and continue to slide down to increasingly more unsustainable realm. The news of acute water shortage and its controlled distribution in South Africa was tossed around on digital platforms with fervour. Not much later, did we get to hear similar stories from within India. These are unmistakeable harbingers of tomorrow.

Conservation of water is one of the most important contemporary challenges. It is more so, especially in a regime of meteorological uncertainty. Clouds of uncertainty loom large on conventional strategies of water conservation. However, the 7500 odd Km of our coastline offers a silver lining. It is high time we give a determined thought on desalinization as a panacea for our urban water stress. 

Although the notion of massive desalinization of water as source of water for urban consumption, at the first reading, may seem uneconomic; a closer study will reveal the contrary. The volume of water that will be available for agriculture itself will address a lot of economic, social and political anxieties. Establishment and operationalization of desalinization plants will create employment. The list of benefits is long. 

Sadly, innovators and early adopters are missing.

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