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= THE WORLD WATER CRISIS: INDIA =
 * The world water crisis is a huge deal. Only 2.5% of the world's water is freshwater. 1% is easily accessible for humans to use.** 29% of freshwater is underground. 70% of the freshwater is frozen. Yet the population keeps getting bigger and bigger and the demand for water is growing with it. In the past 40 years the population has doubled and the water demand has quadulrupled. Also the water supply that we have is all, no more and no less. **We cannot make water**, it is an explosive process. **Therefore, all people can do to make sure everyone has water, is conserve it.**


 * One of the countries that are lacking safe water is India.**
 * India is a country in southern Asia.
 * Borders the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
 * India is between Burma and Pakistan.
 * The climate varies from tropical monsoon in south to the temperate in the north.
 * There is 314,070 square miles of water or 9%.
 * There is 2,973,193 square miles of land or 91%.
 * The population in India is 1,236,344,631. It has the second biggest population in the world, after China.
 * ** About 30% of the population lives below the poverty line. **



Land ||= Permenant Crops ||= Other || 48% ||= 4% ||= 48% ||
 * = =**Use Of Land**= ||= Arable
 * = =**Percentege Of Use**= ||= 1,440,000 sq. km.
 * In India, a lot of the water is contaminated**. People get diseases from drinking or even touching the bad water. Some of the waterbourne diseases are bacterial diarreha, which kills 186,000 children each year, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever. A water contact disease is leptospisosis. There are 99.4 million people in India who don't have access to safe water. Only 35% have access to sanatation facilities. Some people poop on railroad track because they have no toilets. 92% of the population have improved water sources. 97milion people in Indi lack safe water.



India is a large country so some of the country is facing economic water scarcity while other places are facing physical water scarcity. The northern half of India has water but it is contaminated and the southern half of India just dosn't have that much water. The causes of the water crisis is there are not many sanatation facilities and in the south, there isn't much natural freshwater.

= How People are Helping =
 * There is hygiene promotion program.
 * Water.org is giving families clean water.
 * People are helping to develop sanatation and water faculties in schools.

There is 663,340 sq km of irrigated land in India. There is 1,911 cubic km of total renewable water resources and 761 cubic kilometers of freshwater withdrawal per year.



Every 21 seconds, globally, a child dies of a water related disease.
You can prevent this, conserve and reuse water. Only you can prevent the water crisis.