Can we control the ongoing water crisis all by ourselves? It's not about whose responsibility it is, but what we are doing about it. “When water became a commodity, I lost my freedom. More importantly, it put a financial burden on those who couldn’t afford to buy it. Today, water companies sell drinking water and advertise it being rich in minerals and full of vitamins. Big corporates such as soda companies have been buying rivers for industrial purpose and farmers have no water to irrigate their fields. As the rivers dry up, animals also start wandering and enter villages in search of water, with a threat of …

Children have taken it upon themselves to clean the historic ponds in the holy city of Varanasi 

The inability to provide safe drinking water to communities features at the very top of our list of developmental failures, with the disastrous consequence of high mortality rates. In 1996, the World Health Organisation (WHO) stated that each year, more than five million human beings died from illnesses linked to unsafe drinking water. It is further estimated that, by 2020, 135 million people will die from water-related diseases unless they are not only provided adequate water but access to clean drinking water.