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till which year is it predicted that Indian will join countries or regions having absolute water scarcity ​

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Answered by loveyou22
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Answer:

Till 2050 I guesssssss

Answered by shaikhaa9572
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Answer:2025

Explanation:

Extremely inefficient agricultural, that's been increasingly reliant on the pumping of ground water, from ever greater depths, to maintain the use of medieval flood irrigation, see:

Pakistan World's Top Groundwater Exporter, India Ranks Third

India Groundwater: a Valuable but Diminishing Resource

Water tables are dropping annually, as 250+ cubic km of water (250+trillion litres or Kg) are pumped each year, through heavily subsidised schemes, and to inefficiently flood fields in arid regions. Water tables have sunk by up to a meter a year, and the associated energy costs have been escalating for decades. Cubic km of water are heavy, and every extra meter they need to be pumped costs millions, and releases thousands of tonnes of CO2, to the point it will shortly be uneconomic, and not politically acceptable to pump them for such a decadent purpose. As ever more powerful pumps would be necessary, and the majority of the Republic's energy reserves dedicated simply to powering them, just to maintain an archaic style of agriculture, in the medium term. Even if the rest of an ever growing, and forecasted 1.4bn population are taxed to fund the purchase of larger pumps, and supply taxpayer funded energy to them, there's the issue of the remaining ground water becoming ever more polluted, with heavy metals, pesticides, fuel, and nitrates, marking in unfit for human/animal consumption, and even effecting the crops it irrigates, see: PDF | Arsenic Contamination in Rice, Wheat, Pulses, and Vegetables: A Study in an Arsenic Affected Area of West Bengal, India

The growing Population, and increasing urbanisation are increasing demand in parallel, but the majority of India's water reserves are still likely to be spent on the unnecessarily flooding of fields, simply as all other irrigation schemes require more capital, and training, which the near subsistence farmers / smallholders who make up 2/3 of the Population can't afford.

It's likely the metros will soon have difficulty securing supplies for their urban population, and industry, all year round, rather than just in the spring, and may likely stop collecting taxes to fund the waste of water in the surrounding states, which could get messy, see:

Indian capital's summer of discontent: anger, killings over water

Bengaluru heading towards Day Zero? Analysis paints grim water crisis picture - Times of India

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