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Clean water in all homes is Modi’s next big election play SECTIONS Last Updated: Mar 14, 2021, 07:25 PM IST Share Synopsis Access to water is becoming an urgent political issue: The govts planning body projects demand will be twice the available supply by 2030, leading to shortages for hundreds of millions that will hurt growth. The 2018 report said India was “suffering from the worst water crisis in its history and millions of lives and livelihoods are under threat.” The 2018 report said...

Archana Chaudhary, Bloomberg News A fisherman walks past a hose and motor being used to pump water from the Bendsura reservoir in Beed district, Maharashtra, India, on Sunday, Apr. 14, 2019. A three-year drought has left some farmers with no income to pay back loans, with tragic , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has endured over the years in part due to his focus on giving poorer Indians things like cook...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has endured over the years in part due to his focus on giving poorer Indians things like cooking gas, toilets and electricity. Now he wants every rural home to have water by the next national election in 2024. The 3.6 trillion rupee (US$49.53 billion) program would put piped water in all of India’s 192 million rural homes — more than all the houses in the US — over the next four years. That would not be easy: Currently only 70 million Indi...