India is running out of water, fast

At least 21 cities in India, including capital New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad, will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting around 100 million people.

Water levels in Chennai's main reservoirs have fallen
to one of the lowest levels in 70 years, according
to Indian media reports.

India's news network NDTV said 40 percent of India's population will have no access to drinking water by 2030, according to a report by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) - the country's principal planning organisation. 

One of the worrying predictions of climate change has been a weakening monsoon season in South Asia. For the last five years, rainfall in the region has been below average, with 2015 being the worst at 86 percent.

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New Delhi to run out of groundwater in two years as India faces 'day zero' crises

It said that by 2020 some 20 Indian cities besides Delhi, including global information technology centres like Bangalore and nearby Hyderabad, were also likely to run out of groundwater, impacting over 120 million residents or nearly twice Britain’s population. 

Another 20 Indian cities besides Delhi are
also likely to run out of ground water.

An Indian government think tank has warned that New Delhi is set to run out of groundwater within two years as climate change and dramatic population growth hit supplies.

Based on data collected from 24 of 29 Indian states, the National Institute for Transforming India (NITI) warned that the country's worst ever water shortage is likely to adversely impact some 600 million people.

Read the story from The Telegraph by Rahul Bedi - “New Delhi to run out of groundwater in two years as India faces 'day zero' crises.”