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Mar 2022

Scarce Drinking Water, Drying Rivers: India Is Heading Towards Unprecedented Water Crisis

India is surrounded by water on three sides, yet it faces an impending water crisis threat. Even though the country houses over 16 per cent of the world's population, it has only four per cent of the total freshwater resources in the world. In 2018, NITI Aayog released a report mentioning have 600 million Indians or at least half of the total Indian population, is under a deep water crisis. Three-fourths of the Indian households lack access to piped, potable water......

Aug 2021

Ensuring survival and improved outcomes across all outcomes for every child

A safe water supply is the backbone of a healthy economy, yet is woefully under prioritized, globally.It is estimated that waterborne diseases have an economic burden of approximately USD 600 million a year in India. This is especially true for drought- and flood-prone areas, which affected a third of the nation in the past couple of years....

Feb 2021

India's groundwater crisis threatens food security

Hundreds of millions of people in India face a serious threat to their livelihoods and food security due to overexploitation of vital water supplies, according to the authors of a new study.India is one of the world's biggest crop producers and more than half of its 1.3 billion people rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. But the groundwater that makes up 40% of the country's water supply has been steadily depleting for years....

Jan 2021

Ensuring survival and improved outcomes across all outcomes for every child

A safe water supply is the backbone of a healthy economy, yet is woefully under prioritized, globally.It is estimated that waterborne diseases have an economic burden of approximately USD 600 million a year in India. This is especially true for drought- and flood-prone areas, which affected a third of the nation in the past couple of years....

Nov 2019

India’s Action Plan and Policy for Water in 2020

Our country needs an Integrated Water Management plan that encompasses the rural as well as the urban areas, both of which are suffering through a severe water crisis. The crisis has certainly received massive attention and major steps are being taken by the government....

Sep 2019

We Can’t Waste a Drop.’ India Is Running Out of Water

The Ladakh region of northern India is one of the world’s highest, driest inhabited places. For centuries, meltwater from winter snows in the Himalayan mountains sustained the tiny villages dotting this remote land...

August 2019

India water crisis flagged up in global report

The anger over water scarcity is palpable at a farmers' protest in Dharodi village in the northern Indian state of Haryana.Thousands of protesters from several villages have been demanding clean drinking water for nearly a month and half now....

June 2019

Water crisis: Is it time to press emergency button?

As heat wave sweeps north India, there are reports that parts of the country are facing acute water shortage. People in Chennai, Bengaluru, Hubli and in other cities have been affected by the water scarcity this summer....

March 2019

Govt note warns of severe water crisis in India

The Government of India has issued a note warning against the severe water crisis the country will face in the next few years because of over exploitation of rivers and ground water sources. At least 253 blocks in the country have already reached the critical stage, and more than 680 fall in the semi-critical category...

Jan 2019

TWO-THIRD OF THE WORLD, MUCH OF INDIA TO FACE WATER SCARCITY, STRESS BY 2025: EXPERT

Around 1,800 million people would be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity by the year 2025, when two-thirds of the world population could be under stress, an expert said here on Tuesday.In India, which is one of the major countries hit by the menace of arsenic contamination of groundwater, the government projects have suffered due to lack of people's involvement...

Nov 2018

Why much of India lacks access to safe drinking water, despite an ambitious government project

More than 163 million Indians – higher than the population of Russia – do not have access to safe drinking water, and the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, despite spending 90% of Rs 89,956 crore budget over five years to 2017, has “failed” its targets, according to an August 2018 report from the government’s auditor...

Oct 2018

Water Scarcity: India’s Silent Crisis

As Cape Town inches towards ‘Zero Hour’ set for July 15, 2018, the real threat of water scarcity is finally hitting millions of people worldwide.For on that day, the South African city’s 3.78 million citizens — rich and poor, young and old, men and women...

July 2018

Scarce Drinking Water, Drying Rivers: India Is Heading Towards Unprecedented Water Crisis

Ensuring survival and improved outcomes across all outcomes for every child

India's groundwater crisis threatens food security

Ensuring survival and improved outcomes across all outcomes for every child

India’s Action Plan and Policy for Water in 2020

We Can’t Waste a Drop.’ India Is Running Out of Water

India water crisis flagged up in global report

Water crisis: Is it time to press emergency button?

Govt note warns of severe water crisis in India

TWO-THIRD OF THE WORLD, MUCH OF INDIA TO FACE WATER SCARCITY, STRESS BY 2025: EXPERT

Why much of India lacks access to safe drinking water, despite an ambitious government project

Water Scarcity: India’s Silent Crisis

The Global Clean Water Crisis -- PepsiCo Expands Its Safe Water Program

World Water Day 2018

More than a Fifth of the world’s child diarrhoeal deaths occur in India

School children seek an end to water crisis

600 million children ‘face death, disease and malnutrition by 2040 as water supplies evaporate

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