In India, 7% of the population, or 91 million people, are without basic water supply, as per a 2019 joint report by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund
Despite a 14 percentage-point jump in basic access to water supply over 17 years to 2017, nearly 600 million Indians face "high to extreme water stress"
In this 4th part of our explainers leading up to the budget,
we decode how funds have been allocated to drinking water and surface water schemes such as river cleaning, conservation and irrigation over the last five years...