Dear Editor,
Blaming natural calamities for all our problems has become fashionable. Recently, NASA released satellite imagery to show the drastic decrease in the water table since the beginning of the Green Revolution, so how about a closer look at how we have also contributed equally and more aggressively to these problems? Excessive extraction of groundwater without measures to recharge the water table and not planting drought-resistant or drought-tolerant crops are to blame. In some states where there are free power schemes, excessive use of borewell water is again causing problems.
Shiv Sharma
Rajour
