Chief Minister P.K.Dhumal warned today that water scarcity and other environment-related problems were bound to get aggravated unless effective steps were taken to reverse the process of global warming and asserted that the Centre must compensate the hill states that were playing a vital role in reducing greenhouse gases by maintaining forest cover. Launching a "sustainable campaign to clean the Queen of Hills' here he said that under the Kyoto protocol carbon credits were available for reduction of greenhouse cases and on the same analogy the hill states that sacrifice the much-needed forest revenue in the larger interests of the country must be compensated. The rate at which glaciers were melting would land the country in a serious water crisis. All possible steps must be taken to tackle the problem before it was too late. Regarding the plans to solve the water problem of Shimla he said a Rs 735-crore project had been formulated to bring water from the Pabbar river in Rohru. The government was seeking funds from the Planning Commission for the project which would help save power worth corers of rupees as water would be brought through a gravity line and no pumping would be involved. His government was aware of the problem and it had recently introduced a scheme under which CFLs would be supplied to over 16 lakh domestic power consumers free of cost. It would not only reduce the electricity bills of consumers but also enable the state to earn carbon credits. Lauding the effort of the local municipal corporation in launching a sustainable campaign to keep the city clean he said that it must become a habit with the people. Dhumal also formally launched a door-to-door garbage collection scheme. The scheme was being implemented in partnership with five NGOs. The committee had given five dumpers to these organisations for the purpose. Transport and urban development minister Krishan Kapoor said that the previous Congress government misled the people on the Jawahar Lal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission by harping on Rs 3,900-crore plan as the state had received only Rs 20 crore. The present government would take up the matter with the Centre afresh and seek more funds for which 13 projects had already been submitted. Mayor Narinder Kataria gave the details of the campaign, which would conclude on June 30.