Water has suddenly become a favoured subject for seminars and conferences all over the world.

The future adequacy of freshwater resources is difficult to assess, owing to a complex and rapidly changing geography of water supply and use. Numerical experiments combining climate model outputs, water budgets, and socioeconomic information along digitized river networks demonstrate that (i) a large proportion of the world's population is currently experiencing water stress and (ii) rising water demands greatly outweigh greenhouse warming in defining the state of global water systems to 2025.

Single handedly, 62 year old Shamjibhai Antala brings water to the arid lands of Saurashtra and reprieve to the villagers