Australia’s experience in managing the water of the Murray-Darling Basin is being used to help India address one of the world’s most serious looming water crises.
India, densely populated and overwhelmingly agricultural, faces a serious water shortage as a growing population, less reliable monsoon rainfall, and the demands of industrialisation combine to deplete an already-scarce resource.
A recent report by McKinsey and Company found that by 2030, India’s demand for water would be more than double its supply.
Already, many of India’s most famous rivers, such as the Ganges and Yamuna, are toxically polluted, and major cities often run dry of drinking water.
The Australian government’s eWater agency has signed a memorandum of understanding to share its hydrological modelling platform Source with the Indian Institute of Technology.
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