India will be water scarce by 2025, if the current rate of consumption continues. Our mismanagement of available resources is largely responsible for such rampant depletion of water levels, across the country.
What’s more saddening is the fact that a lot of the water which could be re-used and recycled, is wasted.
“40 million liters of sewage water is wasted annually due to poor ground water management”, says Himanshu Kulkarni, Executive Director, Advanced Centre for Water Resources Development and Management.
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