India, March 16 -- 2020 is our make-or-break decade to ensure water security. We need to make water our single-biggest obsession as we know the solutions too

I dare to say that I do not believe there would be water wars; or that cities would run out of water; or that we wouldn't have any water to drink. I say this while acknowledging that we have a dire and crippling crisis of water shortage in the country and it is getting worse day by day. The fact is that we have new water guzzlers like the booming cities and the industries. But at the same time, available water is increasingly getting polluted. Now climate change is adding to this crisis. Rain is now more uncertain and more extreme, leading to more droughts and more floods.

I say th...