{"id":8673,"date":"2019-07-31T17:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2019-07-31T17:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:02:46","slug":"indias-large-cities-staring-at-water-crisis-water-stress-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-large-cities-staring-at-water-crisis-water-stress-index\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s large cities staring at water crisis: Water Stress Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Water\nStress Index, formulated by London-based risk analytics firm Verisk Maplecroft,\nhas listed India as the 46th highest risk country in the world.<\/li><li>According\nto the index, 11 of India\u2019s 20 largest cities face an \u2018extreme risk\u2019 of water\nstress and seven are in the \u2018high risk\u2019 category. Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru,\nHyderabad, Nashik, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Indore are among the cities facing\n\u2018extreme risk\u2019.<\/li><li>According\nto the study, Bengaluru and Surat are experiencing the greatest surge in demand\nfor water and are most at risk of facing scarcity. Further, Chennai and Delhi\nare also extremely vulnerable.<\/li><li>The\nindex measured the water consumption rates of households, industries and farm\nsectors and the available resources in rivers, lakes and streams. It then\nplotted the index with projected population growth trends to rank the cities\nfacing the biggest threat to their water resources.<\/li><li>Further,\nIndia is rated \u2018high risk\u2019 in the Climate Change Vulnerability Index. It\nindicates that effects of climate change like an \u2018extended dry season\u2019 would deteriorate\nwater stress situation in Indian cities.&nbsp;\nThe study has noted that many Indian cities are projected to experience\na higher number of consecutive drought days when precipitation is less than 1\nmm <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water Stress Index, formulated by London-based risk analytics firm Verisk Maplecroft, has listed India as the 46th highest risk country in the world. According to the index, 11 of India\u2019s 20 largest cities face an \u2018extreme risk\u2019 of water stress and seven are in the \u2018high risk\u2019 category. Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Nashik, Jaipur, Ahmedabad&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-large-cities-staring-at-water-crisis-water-stress-index\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s large cities staring at water crisis: Water Stress Index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4588],"class_list":["post-8673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-water-stress-index","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704779984},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}