India’s coming grave water crisis has a simple, cheap India's water crisis' cheap solution: Waste water recycling solution: wastewater recycling
POLITICS/NATION India’s coming grave water crisis has a simple, cheap India's water crisis' cheap solution: Waste water recycling solution: wastewater recycling. But for private capital to get into this, public policy must challenge perception biases against recycled water. Where will India get its water from in the coming years? The water challenge is already grave and could get graver. By 2050, for instance, it is estimated that demand would go up to 1,180 million cubic metres, 1.65 times the current levels, a situation that would be made worse by fast dwindling fresh water resources. That's why desalination — removing salt from seawater to make fresh water — is increasingly catching the fancy of administrators. Two of India's most industrialised states, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, are the keenest among the lot. A water-scarce Tamil Nadu, already running one desalination plant, is working to complete a second plant and planning for the third. Gujarat is also said to h...