India's Looming Water Scarcity and the Need for Bringing Women to the Centre Stage

Feb 12, 2020 | Ananya Pathak
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As the summer months approach, a reality haunts most households across the length and breadth of India and that is an impending water crisis. Be it cities, towns or villages, the reality and hardship of living at a time where water crisis is one of the biggest challenges is nothing less than a nightmare. India is destined to face a water shortfall of almost 50% by 2030, if we don’t reconsider our patterns of water usage. In 2019, visuals and images from Chennai and Bangalore summarised what our cities would be with such rampant and growing crisis of water. The statistics that we once read and chose to be indifferent to, no longer allow us the same scope. We can no longer look away from the fact that water crisis is going to be one of the greatest challenges for India in the coming years.