India needs to work fast to save its rivers; otherwise the Ganga and Yamuna could soon pass into mythology
For India, China, Nepal and Bangladesh, the availability of water and dependence on the monsoon is central to the problem of food security. Huge tracts of farming regions in all four countries are fed by rivers that have a common source — the Himalayan glaciers. It is this common thread that now has India and its three neighbours facing a possibly much more serious food security crisis than the present one; something that can push inflation to levels that will make the present rate deem manageable.
(This story appears in the 02 July, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)