The ambitious plan of the government of providing piped water to every home by 2024 seems to be highly impractical as there are innumerable arid stretches extending to several kilometers in the country where even water tankers would be a big challenge.
In order to cater to the vast population, large number of tanks and reservoirs have to be built, which will be possible by trans-basin water transfer from surplus river basins to deficit ones. For this, interlinking of rivers is the need of the hour as rivers are mostly rain-fed.
DIOMEDES PEREIRA, Corlim Ilhas
