Clean potable water has become a commodity of luxury amid changing climatic conditions that has created water scarcity in so many regions across the world. India is notoriously known for its water pollution and emerging water crisis. However, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that
A study examined climate risks for the most-populated US regions in the next thirty years, including the threats of wildfire, heatwave, water stress, flooding, storm and extreme cold. It stated that New York City might face severe water stress conditions by the year 2050. The
The impacts of climate change in the Himalayas are frighteningly real. The Himalayas is one of the world’s most sensitive hotspots to global climate change, with impacts manifesting at a particularly rapid rate. Changing glaciology of Himalayas amid climate change is pushing India towards water
Grappling with a pandemic already, the world sure could use good news. However, a bleak look into the future reveals much peril is yet to come, with shifting climatic patterns, poor water management and growing populations. A UN report has warned that these factors will
The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) researchers have invented a better way to manage the water crisis through management policies and solve the water scarcity problem in India through ‘Virtual Water Flow’. In a study, the researchers used ecological economies to understand the socio-political
Challenges of water supply are becoming more complicated all across the world, and it comes as no surprise that the curse of the water crisis has even extended to Chennai, a city notorious for its havocking floods. India’s southern metropolis experienced a severe water shortage
The whole world is facing an intensifying water crisis and India is no exception. With a huge population having limited water resources, fluctuating rainfall patterns, and rapidly depleting forest cover, it’s fitting to say that water scarcity is worsening in India. The supply of clean
Very recently, two holy rivers of India, Yamuna and Ganga, were declared as a human entity by the High Court of Uttarakhand. That implies one should look at the rivers as living people. If it’s so, then we have already murdered them by choking into