As pr UN Study, India's population has already crossed 1 billion mark and it has been assessed that the urban population may reach 50% of the total population by the middle of the next century, as against about 30% at present. Due to rapid urbanization and industrialization in the country, the urban population is increasing steadily from year to year.
Goyal, V.C.; Ullah, M. Furqan; Pandey, Charu(CSIR-NIScPR, 2025)
During last few decades many new challenges in the field of water have emerged such as impacts of climate change, declining groundwater levels, decline in groundwater recharge, water logging, encroachment of water sources, ...
