{"id":111,"date":"2014-04-01T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/wullar-village-has-no-drinking-water-since-decades\/"},"modified":"2014-04-01T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:24:00","slug":"wullar-village-has-no-drinking-water-since-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Wullar village has no drinking water since decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b> A remote village located on the fringes of Asia\u2019s largest fresh water lake, Wullar, in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district has no drinking water supply since decades. The inhabitants accuse the successive regimes of neglecting them to the core.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The residents of Watlub Ghat told Srinagar-based Global News Service (GNS) they are without drinking water facility and the governments have never bothered. .<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cWe drink the water of Wullar Lake but owing to its increased pollution we are scared to further consume its water,\u201d an elderly, Ghulam Qadir said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">He accused the successive governments of neglecting the area. \u201cTill date, no government provided us drinking water facility. We have been using water from Wular. But now, due to pollution we are concerned.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">He said that tons of garbage is dumped into the lake leading to its massive shrunk in recent years.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">According to villagers, said one of the main reasons for the pollution of the Wular is casting yard of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cThe HCC dumping not only pollutes water but it also affects our employment,\u201d another resident said, adding: \u201cThe growth of famous Wular fishes, drumstick and water nuts have declined due to cement dust in water.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Professor GA Bhat, who teaches Environmental Science at University of Kashmir and Central University of Kashmir, told GNS that definitely the cement dust affects fresh water body. \u201cThe residents are right that due to cement dust, they get affected,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Bhat added that the cement dust in water affects fish and drumstick. \u201cIf any research would be conducted they will for sure find that it is harmful for the fresh water body.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Deputy Commissioner of Baramulla District told GNS that he will ask the concerned officials to look into the non-availability of water in the area. (GNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: A remote village located on the fringes of Asia\u2019s largest fresh water lake, Wullar, in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district has no drinking water supply since decades. The inhabitants accuse the successive regimes of neglecting them to the core. The residents of Watlub Ghat told Srinagar-based Global News Service (GNS) they are without drinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}