C. V. Ananda Bose, former IAS officer, author and an expert on environmental and habitat issues, said overarching legislations are required to conserve and make optimal use of water as it involves often-contradictory stances of various departments and Ministries.
He was speaking at the 21st edition of Beyond Square Feet, a triannual lecture series organised in connection with the World Water Day by Asset Homes at Hotel O by Tamara in Thiruvananthapuram.
“This year’s Water Day theme is ‘Groundwater – making the invisible visible’ and this is all the more relevant as the percentage of groundwater available on earth is only 0.6% of the various forms of water available. Out of it, about 97.2% is in the oceans and inland seas, 2.1% in glaciers, less than 1% each in the atmosphere, lakes and rivers and in all living plants and animals. Only the balance 0.6% is in groundwater and soil moisture,” he pointed out.
