If you happen to travel by air on good sunny day across India and  you are crossing Aravallis and hills of Udaipur and Ajmer and Jaipur  its needless to mention that hills which were once covered with thick forests have gone barren and getting degraded and denunded at a very faster rate with scores of visible or invisible mining sites. 

Satellite imagaries will confirm my observations if you compare of present with that of 10 or 20 years ago.  Huge water bodies are dry and banks are degraded. Silting has filled most of the rivers .

Making dams has worsened the situations.
What makes me wonder is why there are no trees on lands which dont belong to forest areas or private farmers and belong to Panchayat samitis which are supposed to develop them as charagah land or lands which seems to be no mans land. India was once 87 percent forest in good olden days of Ramayanan and it still had 37 percent forested area in 1947.  What have we done to our forests in Golden 60 years? Who has destroyed our river system ? Where our bidiversity is heading for ? Of  all the biotechnological advancements of tree improvement on which billions of rupees are spent how much is really trasformed to ground level and improvement of our vegetation pattern remains to be evaluated with on site inspections.  
 
Despite of Indian Forest Service Positions multiplying at top level many fold and dwindling ground staff the forest which covered 37 percent area in 1947 are reduced to less than 10 percent or virutally less than 1 percent at places.
The only major contributions Botany Department of Universities and Colleges have made is that their botanical excursions have led to disappearance of hot spots and biodiversity from hilly regions . How far Botanists have fought to preserve the vegetation ? Most of the Botanists found refuge in greener pastures of Biotechnology which has more money from funding agencies and more Impact factor publications which can make you fellows of different societies. But can they give us back our lost biodiversity.

Do you come across thick forests which you once visited while passing the Madhya Pradesh by train or for that matter any part of the country.
 Desert civilization of Rajasthan  state which is in line with Sahara desert if you look at the global map carefully  is  bancking on some dams 180  km away for water supply to a city like Jaipur without thinking that if Ramgarh got dried up will that dam survive the population pressure and greed of man to builders and clonizers? Water table is going down at the rate of one meter to one 30 cm per annum. How long it will take to get our wells totally dry ? May be next 50  years at the most. Prove me I am wrong I will be happy.  
There is need to have urgent measures or declare environmental emegency or water scarcity emergency. I feel amused when people go to Govt offices of PHED for demand of water.
Governments cant create water  Government cant distribute a thing which mother nature stops producing . We are virtually mining water instead of making its sustainable use.
Civilizations have been lost once the water supply dried up.
Its time to get alarmed and awake to the challenge of nature by preserving trees which preserve water and supply it to makind
If no trees , no forests , no water will be there and PHED cant supply water nor can minister of irrigation Only you can ensure your unhindered water supply for your own generation and for next if you preserve the natural resources otherwise history repeats itself and man is no exception  to this rule.