Pollution
Almost all Indian cities face chronic water shortage during summer months. Government agencies are increasingly failing to meet the demands of a rising urban population. The water table is falling all the time due to overextraction from ground aquifers, and rivers and other water bodies are increasingly getting polluted, encroached, built upon, and commonly used as defecation grounds or simply outlets for sewage. Even the groundwater quality in many parts of the country has become suspicious. Agricultural, urban and industrial wastes pose a never-ending threat to groundwater.