Freshwater scarcity is one of the biggest crises worlds is facing today. One-third of the world’s population is living with a water crunch. By 2025, 1800 million people across the globe will face acute water scarcity and India will be a water-stressed country. The human race does not have enough time to think or discuss saving this priceless natural resource, rather it is the time to act for conserving water everywhere every single way possible to keep alive themselves.

SWETKAMAL PROVA WELFARE FOUNDATION has been engaged in continuous awareness and research programs for the conservation of freshwater resources in both urban and rural areas of West Bengal.

Rain is the only source of water in the water body – a rarity among water bodies these days. It is important to ensure that this continues. Household wastewater should not be allowed to enter the water body. It is also important that garbage is not thrown in the water body.

The water body is filled with mud or other waste material. For the revival of such a water body, we first need to excavate the filled material from the water body. We should also ensure that the water channels from the catchment to the water body are not blocked. If the water channels are blocked, we should also build channels from the catchment to allow the rainwater to flow into the water body.

There is an urgent need to clean these water bodies and revive them to discharge the natural function that they were meant to perform in the first place – a storehouse of water and groundwater recharge.

In most cases, it may not be possible to stop the inflow of household wastewater in such water bodies. In such cases, the water body revival plan must incorporate some system of cleaning the incoming water before it enters the water body.