Over one billion people around the world still lack access to clean drinking water.

Communities across the world, particularly the poor and the vulnerable, are finding it increasingly difficult to access water to meet their basic needs.

Even though the UN Millennium Development Goals in 2000 has set the year 2015 as halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, we seem far from achieving such an important goal.

With the real threat of climate change already impacting communities around the world, realizing the fundamental human right to water is getting increasingly difficult. We already see more and more communities across India and the world struggling to meet their basic water needs.

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