India facing worst water shortage
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8297
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Sharmani Gunawardena
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water scarcity drinking water groundwater climate change Chennai
Date
05 July 19
Country
India
Summary
In Chennai, a city of 9 million people, an estimated 20,000 employees have been asked to operate from home, while subway stations are operating without air conditioning to save 7,000 liters of water needed to run their air conditioning cooling plants.
Aditi Mukherji, principal researcher of the International Water Management Institute, cited UNICEF and World Health Organization as estimating that more than 2 billion people worldwide are subject to water scarcity, while 844 million people have no access to safe drinking water.
Source
United News of Bangladesh
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