Summary:
Junagadh: Experts have raised concern rampant exploitation of groundwater for irration and irrational incentives for power supply in many states that is increasing inland salinity. The workshop was jointly organized by 'Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell' (CSPC)-Ahmedabad, Agakhan Rural Support Programme (India), Salinity Ingress Prevention Circle (Rajkot) and Water Management Forum. "90 percent of salinity problems are man-made across the world and we must find out solutions by judicious use of ground water in preventing coastal salinity as well as inland salinity. Many states provide power subsidy and sometimes free power actually destroys agrarian communities and agriculture in the long term. Punjab, the green bowl of South Asia, was once a barren land and people were nomadic in these regions..