Javadekar urges agriculture sector to save water amid declining availability
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Updated: Jun 04, 2021 13:57 IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Raising concerns over the declining water availability in the country, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Friday called on the Agriculture sector to conserve water as it is consuming nearly 85 per cent of the available resource.
Speaking at The Energy and Resources Institute's (TERI) World Sustainable Development Summit, Javadekar said, "The availability of water when we became independent was 5,000 litre per capita. Now it has become 1,100 litres. The decline of water availability because of population growth and various uses. Agriculture is consuming nearly 85 per cent of the water. So the first saving should come from agriculture."