Water Crisis in India Water Crisis in India By: Nancy Castrejon, Ashley Cortes, By: Nancy Castrejon, Ashley Cortes, Daisy Makaveev Jose Rosario Daisy Makaveev Jose Rosario Country Facts Country Facts Capital: Capital: New Dehli New Dehli Population: Population: 1,129,866,154 1,129,866,154 ...
NEW DELHI, June 15 (Xinhua) -- India is facing its worst ever water crisis so far in its history, warned a report prepared by Indian government's ace thinktank and policy adviser the National Institution for Transforming India, or NITI Aayog, on Friday. Currently 600 million Indians face "...
"With increasing industrialization and urbanization, more than 40% of India's available surface water is being used every year. In the northwestern region, the breadbasket of India, about 80% of the surface water is being used". Regardless of improvements to drinking water, many other water ...
Severe water shortages in India could hurt the country's sovereign credit strength, according to Moody's Ratings, warning that the water crisis could lead to social unrest if the agriculture and industrial sectors are disrupted. People seen filling water from Delhi Jal Board Tankers amid a water ...
MUMBAI, Jun 30 (Xinhua) -- Water scarcity in India is turning into a grave crisis leading to a possible halting of residential construction in some cities and rising migration in rural areas due to farm distress. In the country's southern city of Bengaluru -- capital of Karnataka state, th...
Acute political and policy failures have put India on the edge of a fullblown groundwater catastrophe, write water experts Asit Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada and...
As large swathes of drought-devastated India desperately wait for the monsoon rains to arrive, one village in the dry, hot north is flush with water. But this farming area's bountiful water supplies are feared contaminated with heavy metals, underscoring the profound challenges facing the world'...
New Delhi, Mar 18: Food supply in India and across the globe will go down by at least 6 per cent by 2050 as water crisis and heat stress caused by climate change will hit productivity, the Global Commission on Economics of Water (GCEW) has warned. ...
Climate change: IPCC, water crisis, and policy riddles with reference to India and her surroundingsPakistan shares common values with China and the two provide mutual support to each other,"never At the same time, China's status is enhanced as a regional and global economic and andby century...
NEW DELHI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- India's southern state of Tamil Nadu is facing an acute water crisis this year and the worst hit area is India's fourth biggest city of Chennai, officials said Wednesday. The situation, according to experts, has worsened in the wake of soaring temperature,...