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World Water Crisis
August 8 , 2019
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- According to new data from the World Resources Institute (WRI), 1/4 of the world’s population faces huge water stress, with bulk of them living in India.
- Irrigated agriculture, industries, and municipalities withdraw more than 80% of their available supply on average every year.
- 17 countries are facing withdrawals of 80% or more from available supply. India is 13th among these 17 countries.
- Groundwater tables in Northern India aquifers declined at a rate of more than 8 cm per year between 1990 and 2014.
- The Aqueduct tool used by the World Resources Institute (WRI) ranks countries on the basis of “water risk scores”, which are determined using 13 indicators of water risk.
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