India has just five years to solve its water crisis, experts fear. Otherwise hundreds of millions of lives will be in danger
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New Delhi (CNN)The world’s second-most populous country is running out of water.
About 100 million people across India are on the front lines of a nationwide water crisis. A total of 21 major cities are poised to run out of groundwater next year, according to a 2018 report by government-run think tank NITI Aayog.
Much-needed monsoon rains have only just arrived in some places, running weeks late, amid a heatwave that has killed at least 137 people this summer.
Groundwater, which has been steadily depleting for years, makes up 40% of the country’s water supply. But other sources are also running dry — almost two-thirds of India’s reservoirs are running below normal water levels, the country’s Central Water Commission said in June.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html
