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High and low-tech ways to tackle India's water crisis
India is a water-scarce country. While nearly 17% of the world's population lives in the subcontinent, only about 4% of the world’s freshwater resources are available there. Also, large areas of western and central India receive over 90% of their total annual precipitation and southern and northwestern India get 50%-75% of their total annual rainfall during the monsoon period, between June and September. You can imagine how difficult to manage water reserves. Furthermore, about half of rural households don’t have a tap water connection and people in rural villages, mostly girls and women, have to walk for hours only to carry water every day. In the meanwhile, many people and businesses still discharge untreated water into rivers and water channels, making the scarce water more polluted. How will they manage the water supply and distribution when more food production is needed to feed the increasing population while more extreme weather conditions have been experienced around the world? They cannot count on underground water as it is already being over-exploited.
Read the article and learn about the water scarcity in the world’s most populous country.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61965419
High and low-tech ways to tackle India's water crisis
India is a water-scarce country. While nearly 17% of the world's population lives in the subcontinent, only about 4% of the world’s freshwater resources are available there. Also, large areas of western and central India receive over 90% of their total annual precipitation and southern and northwestern India get 50%-75% of their total annual rainfall during the monsoon period, between June and September. You can imagine how difficult to manage water reserves. Furthermore, about half of rural households don’t have a tap water connection and people in rural villages, mostly girls and women, have to walk for hours only to carry water every day. In the meanwhile, many people and businesses still discharge untreated water into rivers and water channels, making the scarce water more polluted. How will they manage the water supply and distribution when more food production is needed to feed the increasing population while more extreme weather conditions have been experienced around the world? They cannot count on underground water as it is already being over-exploited.
Read the article and learn about the water scarcity in the world’s most populous country.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61965419
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