Empower women as managers of vital resources: It could help save India from water bankruptcy
While globally relevant, the report highlights India as a hotspot for groundwater depletion, given our overdependence on rapidly diminishing aquifers. Thanks to decades of over-extraction, cities and rural regions in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan and the Deccan are seeing borewells dry up as groundwater levels fall below the recovery level. The effects are visible in scarcity all around.
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