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In some of Asia's breadbaskets, such as the Punjab in India and the North China plain, unreplenished extraction is causing water tables to fall by between two and three metres (6.5 to 6.75 feet) per year, while the glaciers in the Himalayas are shrinking faster than in any part of the world. Every year, abundance of water during the monsoon causes disasters like floods and river bank erosions, and scarcity of freshwater during the dry season causes salinity ingression, drought," and other problems.
Health experts say as many as 70 million people in India and Bangladesh are exposed to excessive concentrations of arsenic and fluoride. Some experts describe it baldly as the biggest mass poisoning in history."Over the past 30 years, China has sustained a nearly 10 percent annual economic growth rate at a one percent annual growth rate of water use," Chen said.
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