While climate changes owing to the depleting environmental conditions has plagued humanity, the effect has tricked down to groundwater-the major water supply source to many residents of the country. The Narendra Modi led NDA government has informed the Rajya Sabha that the ground water is fast depleting.
The figures presented by the Indian government poses a huge red flag to the future of drinking water int he country. The figures not only speak of the future of drinking water in India, it also says that we might have been drinking ‘poisonous’ water for a long time now. The data presented says that most of the districts, of almost all the states, of the country were found with excess amounts of toxic metals in the groundwater.
India had also been witness to severe water shortage during the months of heatwave that covered the northern parts of the country in May.
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