Master Stroke: India suffering from worst water crisis in history: Niti Aayog's Water Management Index

India is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history and millions of lives and livelihoods are under threat, the Niti Ayog said on Thursday.

Currently, 600 million Indians face high to extreme water stress and about two lakh people die every year due to inadequate access to safe water, said the NITI Aayog report on Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) released on Thursday.

The report found that 75 per cent of Indian households do not have drinking water on premise, 84 per cent rural households do not have piped water access and 70 per cent of the water is contaminated.

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