It is believed that the construction of this dam will produce 300 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every year. According ...

India is reeling under a sustained water crisis that shows no signs ... a well-known water conservationist nicknamed “India’s waterman,” has said that over 70% of the country’s ...

Dozens of monkeys in heat wave-hit India desperate for water have drowned in a well, a forest official said Tuesday, in a state where lakes have turned to dust.

Yet nearly half of India’s 1.4 billion residents already face high-to-extreme water stress, and the world’s most populous nation is expected to add more than 200 million more people by 2050.

India water: Hundreds jostle to reach well Close. People in Khadimal village in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have been forced to risk their lives every day for one bucket of water.

We just built the well bought six months ago. In a year's time, I would see at least 50 to 70 percent of our water being made by ourselves, not from outside. Fred de Sam Lazaro: ...

India's average annual water availability per capita is likely to drop to 1,367 cubic meters by 2031 from an already-low 1,486 cubic meters in 2021, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.

India uses its resource management practices as a social welfare policy to feed and support the nation’s poor. Electricity and water are provided free of charge to India’s grain farmers. That, in turn ...

Challenge. India has long faced the challenge of providing safe drinking water to over 700 million people in more than 1.5 million villages. In 1972, the government began to improve rural water supply ...

Since 2014, India has lost 60.33 billion units of coal-power generation across the country - equivalent to 19 days of coal-power supply at June 2025 levels - because water shortages force plants ...

Political rhetoric aside, India’s water needs are greater than ever. It has 1.4 billion people, or about 18 percent of the world’s population, and only 4 percent of its water resources ...