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How water shapes India and why we need a paradigm shift in managing our priceless liquid assets -Esha Zaveri

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The increasing variability of water can weigh heavily on communities and represents a significant risk facing Indian farms, firms, and families.

Rain, rivers, coasts, and seas have shaped our societies from the earliest days. Tales from classical antiquity to the Abrahamic religions to ancient Mesopotamia speak of how water changed the course of history.

In India, the “crucible of the monsoon,” the annual drama of the moisture-carrying winds that bring 80% of the country’s rainfall between June and September, has long shaped everything from childhood to culture to commerce.

Some of the first written accounts of managing rainfall variability date back to Kautilya’s ancient treatise Arthashatra, written in the fourth century before common era, or BCE, which discussed ways to predict and adapt to monsoon rains.

While rainfall variability is not a new phenomenon, what is new is the intensity of change as a consequence of climate change. It is often said that if climate change is the shark, water is its teeth. Climate change is felt most deeply through water, with higher temperatures leading to droughts, floods, and increasing rainfall variability.

Every increase in the degree of global warming is likely to intensify water-related risks. As concerns about what a hotter climate will bring grow, this important issue of too much water and too little water continues to occupy centre stage in policy discussions.

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