Aqua crisis: Potable water scarcity in India

According to data from the Central Ground Water Board, 1,006 of the 7,089 units surveyed throughout India may be considered to be over-exploited, meaning that more water is removed from them than is typically restored by monsoon rains.
Source: Al Jazeera
It is not surprising that states with a high concentration of agriculture, like Punjab, Haryana, and Tamil Nadu, are at the top of the list of states with the most overexploited groundwater units given that groundwater supplies account for 85% of rural water supplies in India and 62% of the country’s irrigation needs. The problem is also made worse by climate change.
If there is any chance of saving the planet from exceeding the dreaded 1.5-degree Celsius limit of warming above pre-industrial levels by the 2030s, global development must be climate resilient, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent synthesis report, which combined several earlier reports. Water scarcity would get exacerbated as climate change got worse, with disastrous knock-on implications in many different industries.
Since it is a public resource, everyone should have access to safe drinking water. Yet, this public resource is out of reach for many people due to encroachment and pollution of surface water bodies, excessive extraction, a lack of alternate sources for recharging aquifers, municipal lethargy, and bad urban planning, among other things.
Prioritizing water conservation through legislative changes and public awareness campaigns is important. Finding a balance between a populous country’s agricultural needs and the availability of drinking water is more difficult. The complexity of the situation is what makes it serious. Plans for water conservation are useless unless they are accompanied by an ongoing, sustained effort to address problems that cross multiple fields, such as ecology, the environment, the climate, civic responsibilities, urban planning, and so on.
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