Water is the Elixir of Life

Priya Verma , India

I was so excited to bring this innovation because it brought name and fame to me in the world.

I am a student Writer, Journalist, Innovator, Environmentalist, Space scientist, Artist, Youth Leader, Social Worker and a Change Maker and a state,national and International award holder in the field of innovation and environmental protection and a member of various innovators and inventors organizations.

Underground water is one of the key earth resources. Unfortunately, this resource has been depleting at an alarming rate. It is a matter of great concern. Water is indispensable for not only human beings, but for animals and environment as well.

Due to increasing use of water for various domestic, commercial and agricultural purposes, water table of all over the world is going down at an alarming rate. People are not aware that the decreasing level of water is also one of the reasons of global warming.

Scientists are of the opinion that the world will soon become a desert due to the lack of proper management of underground water resources. In some parts of the country like Punjab, Himachal Pradesh in India it has been reported that due to the decreasing underground water level the trees and forests have been destroyed.

Recently NASA Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water. Nasa images shows that beneath northern India’s irrigated fields of wheat, rice, and barley ... beneath its densely populated cities of Jaipur and New Delhi, the groundwater has been disappearing.

Halfway around the world, hydrologists, including Matt Rodell of NASA, have been hunting for it. Where is northern India’s underground water supply going? According to Rodell and colleagues, it is being pumped and consumed by human activities -- principally to irrigate cropland -- faster than the aquifers can be replenished by natural processes.

They based their conclusions -- published in the August 20 issue of Nature -- on observations from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). The northern Indian states of Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana have all of the ingredients for groundwater depletion: staggering population growth, rapid economic development and water-hungry farms, which account for about 95 percent of groundwater use in the region.

Data provided by India's Ministry of Water Resources suggested groundwater use was exceeding natural replenishment, but the regional rate of depletion was unknown. Rodell and colleagues had their case study. The team analyzed six years of monthly GRACE gravity data for northern India to produce a time series of water storage changes beneath the region’s land surface.

Protecting water resources is vital for the conservation of all species which are extincting very fast. Considering the gravity of the situation, I have innovated some useful techniques/ideas of rainwater harvesting to increase the underground water resources, which is useful not only to India but to the entire world.

The techniques/ideas which I have highlighted in my project “Increasing Underground Water Resources”, have been recognized by the government of India, UNEP and other organizations worldwide. Some of the eco-friendly techniques are Funnel System, Polythene cover System, Less Water for Plants-Growing plants in sand, gravel, liquid without adding soil, Pits/ recharge well system, etc.

These techniques/ ideas are universally applicable, globally novel, cost effective, eco-friendly, and utilitarian. I am the innovator and working on the project since 2006 and creating awareness for the conservation and preservation of precious water in the world through my innovations.

I have highlighted the devastating impact of the decreasing level of the underground water level and succeeded in bringing this burning issue to the public notice and received worldwide appreciations and awards.

My project was displayed in the International Project Gallery-2007 by the UNEP (Volvo adventure) at Goteburg, Sweden. The Pogo channel has telecasted it on November 12, 2006 and it has been displayed in the smk.org.uk and TakingITGlobal Website. The project has been sent to UNO, UNDP, UNICEF, WB, Water aids UK, and international organizations and countries with the appeal to adopt these useful technologies to save precious water.

“Even Small Tips can do wonders to conserve water”

Besides the above, I have innovated technologies in waste water recycling, energy, space technology and bio fuel etc and worked for the betterment of the world.

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