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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | From droughts to floods: India's tryst with climate extremes -Aarti Kelkar Khambete

From droughts to floods: India's tryst with climate extremes -Aarti Kelkar Khambete

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published Published on Oct 2, 2019   modified Modified on Oct 2, 2019
-India Water Portal

Deconstructing the traditional narrow engineering based policy discourses around floods and droughts and connecting them to social and cultural realities is the need of the hour in India.

India has witnessed extreme weather conditions this year. While parts of the north and south have battled drought like conditions this summer, the northeast and western coastal areas witnessed heavy rains and floods.

While climate change has been highlighted as one of the reasons for these extreme events, experts argue that human factors, faulty models of development and the narrow perception of droughts and floods at the policy level has worsened the situation in India.

What are droughts and floods? To what extent are they really harmful? How are discourses around floods and droughts constructed at the policy level and how do they influence action on the ground? These were some of the questions contemplated at the Water Talk Series organised by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai,  on ‘The Discourse of Flood and Drought in India – The Question of Life, Livelihood and Environment’ .

Human interventions, faulty developmental models exacerbate impact of floods

Floods and droughts are inevitable, says Himanshu Thakkar from South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP), but can turn into disasters due to a lack of understanding of the important role that river catchments, wetlands, local water bodies, rivers, streams, groundwater play in controlling floods and droughts.

Floods can turn into disasters when natural drainage systems do not have the capacity to carry water. Our catchments are gradually degrading, and their capacity to hold, store and recharge water is gradually decreasing. This is because man made activities have completely destroyed the soil, forests, local water storage systems leading to decrease in recharge capacity.

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India Water Portal, 1 October, 2019, https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/droughts-floods-indias-tryst-climate-extremes


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