As someone who was born in a perennially water-starved state in SOuth
India, I grew up with constant battles between the governments of
Tamilnadu, Andhra and Karnataka over Cauvery water for irrigating
crops in these three states. Consequently, Northern Tamilnadu and
SOuthern Andhra Pradesh which are close to the sea are effectively
becoming deserts from an agricultural viewpoint causing tremendous
social upheaval as hundreds of thousands of poor people in these
otherwise wealthy states are forced to leave their land and migrate
to the cities to work at menial jobs. Andhra also has the highest
rate of farmer suicides in the world. SOme years ago, the newspapers
used to write about farmer suicides. They have now become so common
that no one bothers. Admittedly, there are many reasons for this but
the fact is that Rayalaseema District in Andhra Pradesh and North and
South Arcot in Tamilnadu among many others are severely starved of
water.
This article on Treehugger on a proposal to reforest the Sahara
Desert and use it to generate power as well as reverse its
desertification is an extremely interesting one with positive
possibilities for all of South Asia:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/sahara-forest-project.php The
huge agricultural economies of the region could do very well if this
were implemented on a large scale.
Will it happen? I am not an optimist as far as the region is
concerned.
Mehul Kamdar
Check my Renewable Energy Blog at www.mehulkamdar.blogspot.com
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