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The crisis is so bad that those who hope to win the race for the last water reserves are drilling deeper and deeper into the ground leading to a precipitous drop in water tables across India by an average of 0.3 metres per year and by as much as four metres in some place — the world’s fastest rate of groundwater decline.

India’s arid lands, thirsty crops

India’s water crisis stems from a thorny mix of economic, geographic and political factors.

13 Jun 2018 1:20 AM

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