India is home of only 4% of total world water resources.
Around 2 lakh square kilometers of area is having salinity high as eight times of prescribed standard for drinking water.
In some locations of Rajasthan and Haryana states, 20 times of standard salinity had been reported.
The other elements of deep concerns are heavy metals such as Flouride, Arsenic, Iron, Uranium etc.
11 states of India including Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh etc which houses nearly 60 % of population are majorly affected by high flouride level above the required BIS limit of 1.0 mg/l.
65 % of rural population is experiencing flouride contamination in our nation.
Currently 15811 habitations are suffering arsenic problem in drinking water.
Water provided to us by nature through melting snow from mountains and rain, stored and flowing in beautiful rivers, lakes, ponds has been drastically polluted by our activities.
In case of water scarcity, reasons are multidimensional, we are premier agriculture based country, Over 90 % of water is used by agricultural sector of India and problem doesn’t lies in the use of water in growing crops, problem lies in efficiency of water use.
India use two to four times more water for growing same amount of crop as compared to Brazil and China.