Growing Water Crisis in Agra City

By : Sakreen Hasan

Page No: 291-303

Abstract
Agra city area is basically a water scarce region. The total water demand for Agra city for domestic, industrial, and irrigation purposes, was increased during past decade, is likely to increase in future, due to various factors such as growth of population, rapid urbanization, an upward looking economy and rising standards of living, etc. The source of water supply in the city is mainly surface water. The river Yamuna is the only surface water source. Due to high pollution level in Yamuna water the demand of drinking water of Agra, could not be met from this source. Groundwater has emerged as an important source of water augmentation for Agra city. In Agra people are mainly depended on bore-well and bottled water for drinking purpose which is increasing day by day. In this paper it is being tried to analyse the depleting ground water, increasing pollution which leads to squeezing of supply of water, increasing demand of bottled water, spending of people on purification of water.

Author :
Sakreen Hasan : Research Scholar, CSRD,SSS, JNU, New Delhi.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2020.40.02.7