Abedalrazq Khalil

By 2036, India’s towns and cities will be home to 600 million people—each one counting on a good job, a decent home, clean water, and reliable sanitation and waste systems. Whether those cities deliver will shape the country’s Viksit Bharat aspiration of becoming a developed nation by 2047, the centenary of its independence. India’s cities already contribute 63% of the country’s GDP, a share projected to increase to 75% by 2036.

Depletion and pollution of Vietnam’s water supplies are hurting the country now, and could cause economic losses up to 6 percent by 2035, says new World Bank report. Flood risks are growing, particularly here in the Mekong Delta and in Vietnam’s southern and central regions, according to a new World Bank report. Peak flood flows that used to occur every 100 to 500 years are now expected across half the country every 20 years or less within the next two decades. © J.

Groundwater overexploitation has caused massive groundwater depletion and raised concerns for water and food security in India. Groundwater in India also suffers from multiple water quality issues such as arsenic and fluoride contamination that pose human health risks. Here we report new data showing that the occurrence in uranium in Indian groundwater is an emerging and widespread phenomenon.