Water crisis in India - Some facts

Water crisis in India - Some facts

• India is facing a fresh-water crisis. India has just 4% of the world’s fresh water But 16% of the global population.

• 76 million are without access to safe drinking water

• 21 cities in India, including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad, will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting around 100 million people.

• 40 per cent of India’s population will have no access to drinking water by 2030.

• A fifth of the country’s diseases are water related, that is unavailability of potable drinking water; nearly 330, 000 children under five die due to diarrhoea yearly

• Across India, it is estimated, women spend 150 million workdays in a year fetching and carrying water for their households, equivalent to a national loss of income of INR 10 billion/ 160 million USD.

• The total potential area to be brought under the micro irrigation (drip and sprinkler) in India is 42.2 million hectare of land; however only 3.9 million hectare of land or 9.2% of the potential is currently under micro irrigation.

• *Source: Niti Aayog and International Development Enterprises