Indians without clean water exceed Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand population

Number is 63 mn, which is more than populations of Australia, Bulgaria, Lanka, Sweden put together

India has more people in rural areas–63.4 million–living without access to clean water than any other country, according to Wild Water, State of the World’s Water 2017, new report by WaterAid, a global advocacy group on water and sanitation.

That is more than the combined population of Punjab, Haryana and Uttarakhand. Compared globally, that is as many people as live in Australia, Sweden, Sri Lanka and Bulgaria–combined.

“With 27 out of 35 states and union territories in India disaster-prone, the poorest and the most marginalised will