Water Crisis

in India
According to a report by the NITI aayog, Nearly 600 million
Indians faced high to extreme water stress and about 2,00,000
people died every year due to inadequate access to safe water.
Twenty-one cities, including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and
Hyderabad will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting 100
million people, the study noted. If matters are to continue,
there will be a 6% loss in the country’s Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) by
70% of India’s water supply is contaminated. This contamination combined with a
poor healthcare system results in death of millions of individuals every year, worst
affected are children and infants who become prone to diseases such as
Cholera, Diarrhoea, Malaria, Typhoid and Filariasis.
India’s share in worlds renewable water resources is only 4%.
This finite portion of clean water needs to be provided to more
than a billion Indians.