Scarcity News

The water crisis in Bengaluru signals an alarming situation, especially considering summer months are just about starting. But the situation in India's silicon valley seems to be just the beginning -- there is a nationwide crisis looming over India's urban landscape. UP's Ghaziabad has already been declared a 'red zone' after the groundwater level reached concerning levels. Here are other top Indian cities which may face a water scarcity this summer.

Companies are paying 30% more for private supplies sourced from farther outside ChennaiMore than 600 million people are facing 'acute' water shortages, and 21 Indian cities are expected to run out of groundwater by 2020

Two young inventors have come up with innovative ways to fight water contamination and pollution

Human beings are not entirely rational. Behavioural economics suggests we're just wired that way for various reasons

About 600 million people face high to extreme water stress and about 200,000 people die every year because of inadequate access to safe water, Niti Aayog said

If a water crisis could hit Shimla, which has a population of just 0.2 million people and is fed by five water sources, what's in store for the rest of urban India?

Failure to manage agricultural and personal water use has led India to the brink of a crisis

There has been a total absence of the kind of syncretic policy we should have had between the Centre and states on the interlinked issues of agriculture, water, commerce and finance

Investments in irrigation, combined with better-quality seeds, can dramatically improve returns to farming

If we don't change our ways now, we may soon change from onlookers to agitators demanding our share of water to live our lives