This refers to T N Ninan's column "Water and Boko Haram" (Weekend Ruminations, April 4). The author has convincingly explained that the main cause of conflicts in Syria and Nigeria is the shortage of water in these areas because of increasing pollution and the resulting climate change all over the world, which is worrisome.
India is also likely to be hit seriously with the increasing population and neglect towards the protection of environment. Our farming pattern has to change and states must educate their farmers to go in for crops that need less water for irrigation. The current government has been talking of linking rivers but nothing seems to be happening on the ground.
In urban areas, every building needs to have water-harvesting systems to save water and bring up the water table. The Modi government's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan should be undertaken seriously by one and all, so that the effects of global warming are reduced.
P K Vasudeva Panchkula
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