Water Pollution (Includes Rivers and Groundwater Pollution)
India on Water Quality Index: India ranks 120 among 122 countries in the water quality index, an astounding 2,00,000 people die each year due to polluted water.
No Access to Clean Water: Nearly 163 million of India’s population of 1.3 billion lack access to clean water close to home, the most of any country, according to a 2018 report by Britain-based charity WaterAid.
Disease Burden: Annually about 37.7 million Indians are affected by waterborne diseases, 1.5 million children die of diarrhoea and 73 million working days are lost leading to an economic burden of $600 million a year.
Groundwater Crisis:
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