Did I not mention this in April...
TIMES OF INDIA - A paper published by researchers from IIT-Delhi and Jamia Milia Islamia has claimed that the government has overestimated the utilizable water resources of the country by up to 88% and had breached its water security levels way back in 1997-98 by overexploiting the resource.
Published in 'Current Science', 's leading science journal, the study by N K Garg of IIT-Delhi and Q Hassan of Jamia Milia Islamia claimed that the government overestimated water available for use by a whopping 66-88% by double accounting for the resource in their methodology. . .
Cutting through the reams of data and calculations mentioned in the paper, Garg explained, "During the lean period, the water in rivers that one sees is actually ground water as there is no rain at the time. But when the CWC calculated total utilizable water, it accounted for the water in the rivers at the time as surface water as well as ground water, leading to the inflated figures."
