Half Of India's Population Face Acute Water Crisis

India is facing the worst water crisis in its history. About 600 million people face “high-to-extreme water stress” and about 200,000 people die every year due to inadequate access to safe water.

[monotoshdutta]

Please try to give solutions to it. We need to plant trees besides our rivers as much as possible in pan India basis. Government alone cannot do it public revolution is needed

[computerlover]

India had so much time and a huge labor pool to build water capturing infrastructure. But didn't. This is awful.

[Champak]

And credit goes to increasing population of india.
, 👏👏👏

[mrtecch]

Due to vote bank poltics govt do not take har steps .Population should have been controlled much earlier.now its out of hands

[nabhdeeppopli]

As Chennai and other cities are running out of water, I see posts and videos asking people to save every drop of water. And yet, people aren't focusing on one of the BIGGEST places where water is being wasted, and that's Animal Agriculture. For instance, it takes ~1020 litres of water to produce just 1 litre of milk. That's the same amount of water you would save if you didn't bathe for 2 months. It's the same amount of water that could quench your thirst for a year and a half.

India produces over 430 million litres of milk everyday, so if we took into consideration the water footprint of a litre of milk, that would account for a wastage of around 430 billion litres of precious water every single day.

How many Chennai people do you think this amount of water can provide relief to? How many people would have access to water then, theoretically, if one glass of milk is not bought? How many crops can be grown with 1020 litres of water?(Cow milk is not necessary for survival and growth. Hint: We don't need horse milk either, because we aren't baby horses.)

A recent study from University of Oxford says that raising animals for Meat, Eggs and Dairy uses up 1/3 of the world's fresh water supply and is one of the leading causes of Greenhouse gas emissions(more than all of the world's transport system combined), water and air pollution, fresh water withdrawals, deforestation and land use(more than 80% of the world's farmland is used for growing feed for raising livestock, but it produces just 18% of food calories consumed by humans). The most comprehensive study till date from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) says that the most eco-friendly diet is a Vegan Diet, with a GHG mitigation potential of ~8 Gt CO2 equivalent per year(that's a qaurter of all GHG emissions from fossil fuels today) and that switching to a 100% Plant based diet will save us from the worst impacts of Climate Change.

It is well known that anthropogenic climate change is responsible for irregular weather patters, and the collapse of our ecosystem. It's only a matter of time before the Chennai water crisis hits Delhi and other parts of the World. It's inevitable, considering the present course of mindless exploitation. It's upto us, whether we want to do our bit by turning off the faucet while brushing our teeth or by actually addressing the elephant in the room.

[manusabu]

who care our cricket team get a new jersey

[nandinisutrave]

These money will go into the pockets... Nothing for common ppl..

[Rajesh-qkne]

Reduce population else even God cannot help

[touche]

no more children to suffer. wake up wake up

[qirjsxp]

I dont trust any govt. Be it the Modi or Congress. The politicians do no favour to this country.

[abukgg]

India should introducé 1 child policy like in China.

[michaeljack]

But all politicians family get fresh water from desert 🤔 imported water

[realcarljhonson]

But we have wolrd's taller statue !!

[FK-xqow]

May be its time that india should do what pakistan is doing we planted 1 billion trees in past 5 years next target is 10 billion in next 5 years

Only forestation is the solution... else it will either floods or droughts ... tamil has massive floods last year i think now they face drought... hope your gov works on that ...

This will be the only solution as you are running out of time

[TTT-ukcn]

Ban construction of all types including Metro projects. Focus only on employment related factories in SIDCO and Riico zones.

[skyhigh]

The wells are dry but...aaall eeej well

[lie]

Can't they char all those fertilizer they do in the street because no
access to toilets and use those charred fertilizer to filter their urine
to drink?

[jackryan]

Half a billion migrants? And that's a wrap for humanity.

[shara]

Rain water shouldbe used to recharge the groundwater.. Government did not built any rainwater drainage system. So it is getting flooded in the ☔ rainy season and water crisis in summer.

[fredocorleone]

That's ok, the 600 million Indians can all expect to move to Britain, Canada and the USA after they use up all their water in India. Then after they use up the resources in these English-speaking countries, they can migrate to other areas that have resources to exploit. #irresponsible #ashtrayearth
India has known about these water issues for over 40 years, yet has done zero trying to prevent them...