Stemming water insecurity

Even as some significant strides have been made to mitigate food insecurity, the same cannot be said about water insecurity, which continues to exacerbate. Despite being a renewable resource, water has turned scarce at many places. The government’s think tank, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, reckons that nearly 600 million people (close to half the population) are facing “high to extreme water stress”. The yearly per capita availability of water has dipped from 5,178 cubic metres in the beginning of the 1950s to merely 1,441 cubic metres now. This is below the water-stress threshold of 1,700 cubic

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