India Water


Water Precipitation in India

Water Precipitation in depth
1,083 mm/year
Long-term average annual precipitation in depth (mm/year 2017)
Water precipitation in volume
3,560 billion m³/year
Long-term average annual precipitation in volume (billion m³/year 2017)

Water Resources in India

Renewable Water Resources
1,911 billion m³/year
Total Renewable Water Resources (2017)
Water Resources per Capita
1,427 m³/person/year
Renewable Water per Inhabitant (2017)
Water
Dependency
30.5%
Water from outside the country (2017)



Water Use in India

Total, by Sector, and by Year

Notes: Years with missing data left empty.
Water use can include water used and then returned to its source (renewable resource).



People with no access to a safe drinking water source in India

See world total and list by country


Don’t have access to safe drinking water
78,353,445 people

5.9%  of the population of India (2015)



See also

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