Ground water depletion - a reality?

Nancy Jose

A below par monsoon is likely to affect the agrarian economy and add to urban India’s water woes. However, monsoon may not be the only cause for the latter.

Groundwater all across the country is depleting. The figures are shocking: Seventy-two per cent of the country falls under the "crucial zone", where groundwater has been over-exploited. Be it urban or rural India, water supply and its quality is pathetic.

Policy paralysis and an appalling lack of management have turned burgeoning India into waterless, despairing India.

Launching products (for example: bathing and surface care products) that use up less water could mean conservation of water and hence, a decline in water problems of urban and rural India!

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Source:  India Today; July 6, 2012