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''Water is precious'' , ''water is limited''. After hearing these public service advertisements on national and private channels, we never imagined that one day we will receive these messages in the form of advices from our neighbouring country Pakistan. In an article written in a prominent Pakistan daily,  bollywood has been held responsible for the water scarcity of the World in a big way.

''Bollywood not only spends money like water on its films but prodigious waste of water is also a habit of Bollywood producers and directors," it said, noting in that current Salman Khan superhit "Dabangg", one scene which showed the heroine (Sonakshi Sinha) getting wet in the rain "used 180,000 litres of water, in another picture dealing with the 2007 floods in Mumbai used a whopping 3,600,000 litres of water for filming just one scene of the deluge, while the Shah Rukh Khan film 'My Name is Khan' used 2,400,000 litres of water''.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/104304/bollywood-responsible-worlds-water-woes.html The newspaper might be right in what it's saying ,but one can still blame it for being selective. As, a city like Delhi alone has about 8 million cars, even if each car uses 10 litres of water it comes around 80 million litres of water every day. These figures are of the national capital region alone.

It's been now accepted world wide that ''global warming'' is real. The direct effect of global warming will be on the polar iceblocks and several himalayan glaciers ,which are the source of many subcontinental rivers. Due to the increased global temperature these glaciers will soon run out of water, and that will be a disastreous situation for several river systems which are the life blood of the subcontinent.

This is not a doomsday prophecy  to grab eyeballs world wide ,but a real threat which has the potential to completely ruin our present way of living.

Present way of living, yes that itself is majorly responsible for this situation . The unrestrained use of water to quench the desire of millions and billions of people has led us to a situation where  the future generation will ask very tough questions from us. Earlier, a farmer used to water his field with rain’s water as and when the rain comes, today even in the absence of rain, the same field needs round the clock water in the form of ground water. This tendency of overusing ground water is also majorly responsible for the depletion of natural acquifers.
http://geology.com/press-release/northern-india-water-supply/

Time has arrived for not only the governments worldwide ,but all of us to sit back and devise a strategy, a new model of living, where we can eliminate the wastage of water.