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For 2,500 years India’s water-management model has focused solely on increasing supply. This strategy is increasingly untenable today, given the country’s exploding population, water-intensive industries and weakened monsoon season.
Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada and Udisha Saklani make the case that unless the country starts making real conservation efforts — through recycling wastewater, plugging leaks, preventing theft and teaching citizens to use less water — India’s wells will soon run dry.
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Ratanpura Lake, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, has almost completely dried up.
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Asit K. Biswas, National University of Singapore; Cecilia Tortajada, National University of Singapore; Udisha Saklani
Hit by weak monsoons, India faces unprecedented water shortages.
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Politics + Society
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Patricia Rodrigues Samora, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
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Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, University of Marburg
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Arts + Culture
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Akosua Adomako Ampofo, University of Ghana
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Business + Economy
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Ariane De Lannoy, University of Cape Town
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