"The Impact of Water Scarcity on Global Communities: A Look into the Future"

Water covers 70% of our planet, and it is easy to think that it will always be plentiful. However, freshwater—the stuff we drink, bathe in, irrigate our farm fields with—is incredibly rare. Only 3% of the world’s water is fresh water, and two-thirds of that is tucked away in frozen glaciers or otherwise unavailable for our use.

Water is not free, as we usually think. It will be a huge problem that could lead us to another war.

Access to water, fundamental as that is, is not an end in itself. Access to water is access to education, access to work, access to—above all—the future we want for our own families and all the members of our human family.

Water crisis Impact on the world

Water impact will be our future we must focus water problem

Water impact's on India as per data, few states is facing water problems in India

Due to increasing demands, it is estimated that India will become a water scarce nation by 2025. According to a 2019 report by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), the best estimates indicate that India's water demand will exceed supply by a factor of two by 2030.

Reduced water availability impacts agriculture, the backbone of the country's economy, leading to lower crop yields and increased food prices. Communities suffer from inadequate sanitation and hygiene, resulting in waterborne diseases.

The availability of water resources varies over space and time mainly due to the variations in seasonal and annual precipitation. ii Over-exploitation excessive use and unequal access to water among different social groups.

Poor quality water is water that does not adhere to the prescribed irrigation standards. It is the end result of geological factors, human involvement, or all of these factors' effects on water supplies.

Bengaluru, the city of lavish headquarters of multiple global software companies in southern India, is drying up. Residents say they are facing the worst water crisis in decades as they witness an unusually hot February and March.

Water experts fear the worst is still to come in April and May when the summer sun is at its strongest in the city of 13 million residents.

In the last few years, Bengaluru has received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change. Water levels are running desperately low, particularly in poorer areas, resulting in sky-high costs for water and a quickly dwindling supply.

City and state government authorities are trying to get the situation under control with emergency measures, such as nationalising water tankers and putting a cap on water costs.

Authorities say 6,900 of the 13,900 borewells drilled in the city have run dry despite some being drilled to depths of 457 metres (1,500 feet). Those reliant on groundwater now have to depend on water tankers that pump from nearby villages.

The water scarcity has pushed a number of companies to allow their employees to work virtually, reports said. At several firms, the staff has been demanding flexibility, including the option to work from home, in view of the hardship being faced by them due to the reduced supply of water.

Chennai: Despite Chennai's considerable annual rainfall of about 1,400mm, the city found itself in the grips of a dire water crisis in 2019, emerging as one of the first major cities worldwide to exhaust its water supply and resorting to the daily transportation of 10 million litres of water to meet its population's