India Staring at a Water Apocalypse
asiatimes.com
asiatimes.com
I guess the best we can hope for is it doesn't affect comfortable rich people like us too much, right?
India is not facing a "Water Apocalypse".
Salt water infiltration into groundwater and soil is a harder problem to solve.
Urban/rural India has no system whatsoever to manage water.
The problem is that without some sort of stick, nobody is going to do anything about it and the stick is almost here.
This problem will resolve itself in time, anybody who has been even slightly forward looking would have already invested in water conservation.
Sea Level rise and salt water infiltration in agri land is much more concerning though.
If India was Syria, then it would be a bit more horrifying, as even simple rain harvesting wont solve the problem in Syria.
India is filled with problems, let me put it this way, if India was blessed with the amount of freshwater as Canada, India would still misuse it terribly.
Its a good thing there is no petroleum.
The problem here is not rain, or climate change or drought - but politics, corruption and bureaucracy. India needs its own Meji Restoration - some type of shock therapy - or else the suffering will just continue to get worse.