•Mr. Rishi Agarwal has taken an uphill task to save 30 top cities of India and 50 top cities of the world through his various campaign and has approached respective State Govt to make water free of cost available for its citizen.
The Indian government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken up an initiative to map the aquifers.
NITI Aayog, in its report, warned that India was suffering from the worst water crisis in history and nearly 50 per cent of the Indian population are suffering from severe water stress.
It further predicted that Delhi along with 21 Indian cities will run out of groundwater by 2030; nearly 40 per cent of the Indian population will have absolutely no access to drinking water by 2030, and 6 per cent of India’s GDP could be lost by 2050 due to water crisis.
•Also, the National Green Tribunal observed that depletion of groundwater creates a crisis for drinking water. In the absence of inadequate surface water where there may be drought conditions, it also affects the flow in rivers and can also increase salinity in the soil.
According to the Central Water Commission, the country requires at most 3,000 billion cubic meters of water annually and receives about 4,000 billion cubic meters of rain.