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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023.
People across India are facing critical drought conditions and water shortages. One of the worst affected areas has been the west-central state of Maharashtra, where six of the 17 reservoirs are dried out.
More than 60% of India’s agriculture is rain-fed, making the country highly dependent on groundwater. Even without climate change, 15% of India’s groundwater resources are overexploited.
The western Indian state of Maharashtra is grappling with a devastating water crisis. Over fifty percent of villages in the rural areas of the state currently face severe water shortage.
Despite India's economic growth in recent years, it remains one of the most unequal societies in the world. And that inequality can be seen in people's access to life's most basic necessity: water.
India's Water Crisis: Every year 0.2 million people in India die due to unsafe water while 600 million Indians face acute water shortage in their daily lives. Niti Ayog projected that demand will double by 2028. Meanwhile, the amount of water available per person for daily needs is shrinking. Therefore, the United Nations classified as water-stressed.
In the area you have selected (India) water scarcity is classified as high according to the information that is currently available to this tool. This means that droughts are expected to occur on average every 5 years.
Hundreds of Indian villages were evacuated in 2019 as a historic drought forces families to abandon their homes in search of water.
With the planet's second largest population at 1.3 billion (after China's 1.4 billion), and expectant growth to reach 1.7 billion by 2050, India is struggling to provide safe, clean water to most of its populace. According to data from India's Ministry of Water Resources, though the country hosts 18 percent of the world's population, its share of total usable water resources is only 4 percent.
With the planets second largest population at 1.3 billion, and expectant growth to 1.7 billion by 2050, India finds itself unable to serve the vast majority of that populace with safe, clean water.