In drought-hit Maharashtra, a fourth of its villages are staring at a water crisis by April

The state is facing its worst groundwater depletion since 2015, says the Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency.

A quarter of Maharashtra?s villages ? numbering around 11,500 ? are likely to face water shortages by April 2019, according to data released by the state?s Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency. And 2,941 villages are already facing this deficit.

The Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency releases a seasonal water shortage outlook for Maharashtra every October. Villages where groundwater levels have fallen 3 metres below the average of the last five years and which also had more than 20% deficit rainfall in the monsoon are declared likely to be affected by water shortage.

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