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Groundwater extinction
In a report published on June 14, 2018, NITI Aayog, a policy think-tank established by the Government of India, claimed that 21 Indian cities would run out of their supply of groundwater by 2020. The report, especially this statistic, went … Continue reading
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Tagged Chennai, groundwater, groundwater contamination, Joanna Slater, NITI Aayog, Tamil Nadu, The Washington Post, water crisis, World Bank
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The Indus and Ganges-Brahmaputra Basins are drying up faster than we’d like
The Wire June 22, 2015 To the north, India is flanked by two giant groundwater aquifers – the Indus Basin to the west and the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin to the east. Between them, they underlie a surface area of over 2.2 million sq. … Continue reading
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Tagged aquifers, Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin, groundwater, hydroelectric power projects, Indus Basin, Indus Water Treaty, NASA GRACE
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