Hyderabad: Hyderabad city has been placed in the ‘Extreme’ Red Zone of water stress by the World Resources Institute. The city has been placed with Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi and large areas of Rajasthan and Punjab.
The WRI has developed a database that reveals surface and ground water, current status and future prospects. West Godavari district in AP has been placed in very high stress category.
Interestingly, all other parts of AP and TS except Hyderabad and West Godavari are placed in the normal category but the projections show that the situation will worsen in other areas by 2025.
According to WRI’s Andrew Maddocks and his team, around 54 per cent of India faces high to extremely high water stress. WRI has said that northwest India including Haryana and Punjab that produces 85 per cent of the wheat and 50 per cent of the rice procured by government, are extr-emely highly stressed.
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Indiawatertool, the database developed by Water Resources Institute says that in terms of ground water, Hyderabad, Siddipet in Telangana, parts of Warangal, Karimnagar and Nalgonda in TS, Eluru, Hindupur, Tadiparti and parts of Prakasam in AP have been placed in ‘overexploited’ category.
AP and Telangana states have critical and semi critical patches too. Coastal cities and towns of Krishna, East and West Godavari like Machilipatnam, Kakinada are placed under saline category as regards ground water.
While almost entire Andhra and Telangna has been placed under ‘low’ category of surface water availability, areas like Anantapur, Proddutur and Nandyal are placed under very low category by WRI.
