What Inspired You To Work For the Environment? – Sadhguru
The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes
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Why Is India So Dry?
In india, only four % of the river water is glacial or ice fed. Rest is all forest fed and essentially means we have rains. Fertilizer companies openly advised every farmer to remove all the trees because fertilizer gets absorbed by the aggressive root system of the trees. So across the country, in the last 35, forty years, a huge depletion of green cover happened. That is the main reason why waters have receded. Another thing is there is a serious exploitation of ground water, which is an inevitable consequence of not having enough water in the rivers.
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