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SAFE WATER IS SCARCE

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Save water. Save lives   Water is a basic requirement of all the lives on the earth. 71% surface  of the earth is surrounded by water.  Despite the huge qauntity of water on the earth, there are water crisis. Because 96.5% water is in ocean which is saline and brackish water containing many harmful components. Only 4% water is clean and fresh to use. Which is locked up in ice-glaciers, rivers and in the underground water. Rivers share only 1/10000 of  fresh water part. Water is contaminated out of   effluence industrial waste water into rivers, plastic waste, etc.  Almost 63% sewage water of urban area mixes with river water. 21% disease spread out because of polluted water.  In India, 10-15% fresh water is used in industries, out of it 87% is used thermal power plants. There are much diversity in India. In India many of its states is reeling under the water crisis. Punjab is a only state which has kept its position first  under the survey of access of safe drinking water wit