Yet nearly half of India’s 1.4 billion residents already face high-to-extreme water stress, and the world’s most populous nation is expected to add more than 200 million more people by 2050.

The Central Water Commission, using Artificial Intelligence, now provides flood forecasts up to 24 hours in advance at 350 monitoring sites. These forecasts are part of an initiative by the Jal Shakti ...

Management of water resources in India has been a challenge whose magnitude has risen manifolds over the past 50 years due to a variety of reasons, notably the rising demands and growing environmental ...

Come summer, and water becomes a commodity as precious as gold in India. The country has 18 percent of the world’s population, but only 4 percent of its water resources, making it among the most water ...

India's average annual water availability per capita is likely to drop to 1,367 cubic meters by 2031 from an already-low 1,486 cubic meters in 2021, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.

The analysis based on World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct data (also a water risk atlas) said sites experiencing severe risks in India included the Taj Mahal, Kaziranga National Park, Western Ghats, ...

Political rhetoric aside, India’s water needs are greater than ever. It has 1.4 billion people, or about 18 percent of the world’s population, and only 4 percent of its water resources ...