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Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, have already exceeded the groundwater risk tipping point, while others, including India, are not far from it.

Some areas in the Indo-Gangetic basin in India have already passed the groundwater depletion tipping point and its entire northwestern region is predicted to experience critically low groundwater availability by 2025, according to a new report by UN.

Several parts of India are predicted to experience critically low groundwater availability by 2025, a lates report warns.

Around 70 per cent of groundwater withdrawals are used for agriculture, often when above-ground water sources are insufficient. | Latest News India

Environmental tipping points are critical thresholds in the Earth's systems, beyond which abrupt and often irreversible changes occur, leading to profound and sometimes catastrophic shifts in ecosystems, climate patterns and the overall environment

A new report by the UN university lists six areas of grave concern and states that without behaviour change, the world could face catastrophe.

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SAINT LUCIA, Oct 26 (IPS) - A new report by the University lists six areas of grave concern and states that in the absence of behavior and priority change, the world could face catastrophe in areas like groundwater depletion and species extinction.Melting mountain glaciers. Unbearable heat. An uninsurable future. Space debris. Groundwater depletion. Accelerating extinctions. The United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security said this week that these six environmental &q...

Solutions need to be implemented before climate, food and water systems are tipped beyond the point of recovery, says a United Nations University report.

Debris orbiting Earth could render space “unusable” and many areas could become uninsurable due to the increasing costs of weather-related disasters, UN researchers warned.