By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: August 7, 2019 7:13:00 am
Explained: 1/4 of world’s population faces huge water stress, bulk in India
India is 13th among these 17 countries. India has more than three times the population of the other 16 extremely highly stressed countries combined, the WRI noted.
One-quarter of the world’s population faces “extremely high” levels of baseline water stress, which means that irrigated agriculture, industries, and municipalities withdraw more than 80% of their available supply on average every year, new data from the World Resources Institute (WRI) show.
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