In This Era Still?

At the seminar on "water resources....policies and issues", mentioned earlier, there were proposals for the transfer of water from 'surplus' areas to so-called 'deficit' ones. Firstly this premise for such consideration is faulty, and has been the cause of the implementation of many of the non-cost-effective mega irrigation schemes of the past half century. For instance the Yamuna basin, considered as a deficient region, was one such, but has been converted into one through human intervention and the excessive setting up of man made schemes over the last four centuries. The solution for such a situation is not to build more barrages and canals across the rich Ganga-Yamuna-Brahmaputra basins, and across their natural drainage patterns, as this would compound past errors. The answer lies in reviewing and correcting the past errors, and in correcting past errors by modifying the older schemes. For instance India's 'National Capital Territory' of Delhi gets some 400 cusecs [cubic feet per second] of water from the Beas and 200 cusecs from the Ganga, moving these across the old western and eastern Yamuna canals. Does the Yamuna not have the sum of these, i.e. 600 cusecs as part of its virgin flow? Could this amount not be allowed to flow down this beautiful river, thereby keeping it alive during the lean seasons, and the 400 and 200 cusecs be retained by Haryana and U.P. respectively?

THIS?

OR THIS?