HOW DYNAMICS OF URBAN-RURAL WATER SUPPY IS AFFECTING THE URBAN-RURAL RELATION OF DEHRADUN DISTRICT UTTARAKHAND?

Abstract

Around the world, over 2 billion people are experiencing high water stress, furthermore, during at least for one month of the year about 4 billion people undergoing the serious water scarcity. Undeniably, the stress level will continue to rise as the demands for water goes up and the effects of the global warming and climate change intensity. As we progress into-the-21st-century our nation is likewise facing a major crisis of clean safe water. Although, this water crisis has jeopardized the basic-right of people to drinking-clean water as a citizen but it has also put the livelihoods of million people at risk. Simultaneously, the rising demands of a instantaneously urbanizing society and rapid industrializing economy has put immense pressure on existing water supply, meanwhile the-potential-for rising supply-is-limited, Groundwater tables are dropping down & the water quality issues have progressively come forward (Shah, 2013). drinking water is less than hundred LPCD along with a merely 2.7 percent of surveyed municipalities have proclaimed to supply over this amount in the numerous urban centers of India. Whereas roughly 28 % of the various municipalities have distributed less than 50 LPCD. Rapid urbanization, Exponential and unplanned growth of cities energized by rural to urban migration has accelerated the primary challenge to supplying drinking water both in quantum and quality.