Indore's overreliance on Narmada River's waters, coupled with dwindling groundwater reserves, paints a grim future. Recognizing this predicament, the Indore Municipal Corporation is revitalizing the city's lakes to achieve water self-sufficiency.

Before installing rainwater harvesting in 2021, we used to spend Rs 5 lakh on tankers, now this money is being saved, said Mahavir Gole, who manages accounts of C block of Sanghvi Residency, Bicholi Mardana, Indore.

Numerous regions worldwide are witnessing a swift decline in underground water reserves, which billions of people depend on for drinking.

A few years ago, different parts of United States, such as the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming in 2015, witnessed appearance of large cracks

The overexploitation of groundwater is causing alarming consequences, including land subsidence and declining groundwater levels in Delhi.

Groundwater is primarily used as a source in the semiarid part of the Indian states for drinking and irrigating the land.