There will be no inter-state water dispute, if all the States take efforts to install rain water harvesting, shop that they can be water surplus, without depending on other States, social activist and Gandhian, Anna Hazare said today.

Replying to a specific question on vexatious water disputes among the neighbouring States in India, particularly with reference to Tamil Nadu facing from Karnataka and Kerala, Hazare told reporters that one can expect fight
between brothers, villagers, States and Countries for water in future.

The problem being faced by States lied on the failure of the Governments to utilise and store rain water in a productive manner by erecting check dams and also reservoirs, so that the ground water table increased, he said.

By this the States need not not depend on the water from neighbouring States, which always led to dispute and friction between the people, he said

Hazare, here to launch an inititiave by Siruthuli, to restore Noyall River, passing through four districts, said that he was successful in replenishing water in his village Ralegoan Siddhi in Maharashtra, by which 1,200 acres of land being cultivated, where there was no no water for 400 acres of land for the last four decades.

When pointed out that in several areas in Maharashtra still have shortage of drinking water, Hazare blamed both the tubewell diggers and sand mafia for it.

He said that he has already met chief minister, Fadnavis and has sought a legislation banning digging borewells beyond 250 feet deep for drinking water and 200 feet for agriculture purpose, which was expected soon.

“All are bored with borewell,”he said.

Refusing to take on any question on politics and corruption, Hazare said that total prohibition can be achieved, by having a firm leadership in a village, as his village, which had 40 liquor shops some 20 years ago, have not a single shop now and even no no beedi or cigarette shops.

On the project of Noyyal River, which is being opposed by farmers who alleged encroachment, Hazare said that there were records with the Government both with regard to land belonging to it and farmers.

The industrialists are not taking the water to their homes and ultimately it was the farming community to benefit by it, Hazare said.