Uploaded on 2016-08-01 by Yugdeep

Rohtak is a city, 70 km north-west of New Delhi, with population of about four hundred thousand. Major stocks and flow in the city are: a) Water: A feeder canal from Yamuna river provides for much of city's water requirement. Other than that, bore-wells are also used in many parts of the city which tap into the stock of ground water stored in aquifers. Not surprisingly, this is decreasing the stock of available water especially when both population and per capita consumption of water is increasing. There is not enough data to know the exact number of bore-wells and water being pumped by households and industries. However, a recent report from NASA, which did satellite imaging of the region over the last decade, shows than water table is steadily receding. b) Food: Rohtak is situated in Indo-Gangetic alluvial plains and thus is a major stockpiling and redistribution center for grains produced in the region. Sugarcane also flows into the city to be processed by a sugar mill. Excellent rail connectivity helps to transport them to other parts of country. City's grain and vegetable market also attracts food products from other parts of country to cater the varied tastes of city residents. Meat consumption is quite low in Rohtak, even by Indian standards, but is definitely going northwards as evident by sprouting of couple of sea-food selling stores. c) Human Resource: Above all, Rohtak is a educational hub. It has more than a dozen government institutes apart from a number of private universities. There is a flow of students coming to city's schools, colleges and universities from nearby as well as far away places. Some of the students from this flow join academia within the city, augmenting their stock. Interesting, most of new private schools are coming up in villages at the outskirts of city, thereby making children studying there go out of the city in school buses in the morning, just when many students from rural background heads towards the city! Above listed stocks and flows are closely related. A dim future of stocks and flows of water can impact the attractiveness of the city for academic professionals thus affecting their future flows into the city. Universities on the other hand can provide manpower to evolve businesses and other solutions to ensure sustainability of water resources in the city. This can subsequently result in higher funding to city's educational establishment for expanding their capacity building programs to deal with similar problems in other cities.