Global fresh water supplies were continuously stressed by rising demands from growing population and its ever increasing needs for hygiene, sanitation, food and industrial needs.
While the world's population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold and within next 50 years, the world population would increase by another 40 to 50 per cent, it claimed.
On water facts, the paper said that a billion people in the world do not have access to safe water, which was roughly one sixth of the world's population.
Image: Girls carry drinking water in Jankinagar village of Bihar. | Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters.
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