India at 75: Melting glaciers, heatwaves and climate crisis
The HinduFrom prime ministers and millionaires to labourers and ascetics, Hindu faithful dream of trekking at least once in their lives to Gaumukh, where the waters of India's holiest river, the Ganges, emerge from a Himalayan glacier. The Ganges flows for around 2,500 kilometres across India and is central to both Hindu identity -- believers revere it as "mother Ganga" -- and the survival of 500 million people who depend on its water for their daily farming, domestic and industrial needs. It has 17% of the world's population but only four per cent of its water resources, and the government's NITI Aayog public policy centre says about 600 million people already face "high to extreme water stress". The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in February that food security and agriculture-dependent economies such as India were the "most vulnerable" to the impacts of global warming. The climate crisis "is not something we are going to face sometime in the future", said Manshi Asher of campaign group Himdhara.
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