India, April 26 -- India's water crisis is no longer a spectre of the future; it is a daily reality. As the summer of 2025 looms, farmers from Punjab to Tamil Nadu brace themselves for parched fields while urban residents grow anxious about taps running dry. Beneath the cracked earth and empty rivers lies an even more alarming threat: the relentless depletion of groundwater-the lifeline of Indian agriculture and rural drinking water supply. While government schemes like the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) and Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABY) attempt to address the issue, funding constraints and implementation delays continue to undermine progress. India's groundwater situation is precarious. It provides 80% of rural drinking water, 50% of urban drinking...