Oh...and India is running of water.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl...
You don't know scary until 1.3 billion people all decide they have to leave India at once or they'll die of thirst.
And India has nuclear weapons.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl...
You don't know scary until 1.3 billion people all decide they have to leave India at once or they'll die of thirst.
And India has nuclear weapons.
The thing is that we may call it drinking water, but it's used for all purposes like washing, sanitation etc. An average person's daily water consumption is 150-300 litre in various countries, but she uses probably only 3-4 litre for drinking. The problem is scarcity of water to fulfill our wasteful living standard, where we flush drinking water by the liters everyone we go to the toilet. A different problem is the distribution of water, where the poor haven't been able to get reliable access to this water. This is why people die of thirst.
What India is facing is distribution issues and there are already broadly understood solutions to the problem.
Also, India, Pakistan and China all depend on the Himalayan glaciers for water. With global warming, those glaciers are melting down, and there is likely to be a demand to secure water sources.
Three nuclear powers fighting over a scarce, essential resource is not going to be fun.