Water's crisis is ours to change

Each drop must bring more crop and more of everything

By the time you read this, the crisis will be over. It will be business as usual. Instead of acute and crippling water shortage, the worry will be floods. But the fact is that this relief is temporary. The fact is also that this season of plenty is when we need to prepare for the longer season of scarcity. But we don’t.

This summer the Himalayan town of Shimla literally ran out of water. But this is not the only town to confront this crisis. According to the 2018 Composite Water Index of the NITI Aayog, 600 million people — roughly