About Paani bachao Foundation

This is started by students of MNNIT Allahabad to promote issues related to water. Water is an important natural resource and must be preserved.

Why Paani bachao Foundation? Why Water?

Water presents India’s largest problem and largest opportunity. Water scarcity turns life into a living hell. Water abundance opens up the possibilities for every kind of human and economic activity. A village with water abundance will typically have substantially higher educational levels, superior health and life expectancy, and incomes that are a multiple of those which suffer from water scarcity.

Is there a Water Crisis?

India is classified globally as a water-adequate nation. It has neither abundance nor scarcity. It has enough for its needs. Yet, increasingly, more and more people do not have water to drink, more and more farmers face drought and starvation, and more and more industries shut down or cannot grow because of a shortage of water.

Why this Crisis?

The crisis is largely man-made and has four key causes:

1. Pollution: We have polluted our lakes and rivers.

2. Over-Exploitation: We have recklessly pumped out ground water without caring to recharge the ground water table resulting in a catastrophic fall in ground water levels.

3. Irrational Water Management: For example, highly water-intensive sugarcane cultivation in drought-prone areas.

4. Climate Change: Rainfall is getting compressed in both space and time. The number of rain days is decreasing. Rainfall is concentrated in small areas with vast land masses subject to drought.