India like most of the rest of the world is water bankrupt.
Rising Food Prices & A Water Crisis with no End in Sight
Indias Youth Protests are Driven by Government Corruption, Poor Job Prospects, Inflation Water Shortages and Rising Food Prices.
Holding placards featuring Modi as ‘Mehengai Man (Inflation Man)’ and the ‘Achchhe Din (Good Days)’ where the price of tomatoes hit Rs 150 a kg, the Indian Youth Congress leaders and activists gathered near Shastri Bhawan in central Delhi and raised slogans against the Centre, alleging negligence on its part had led to uncontrolled food prices.
What Can The Climate Movement Learn From Indias Protests
In an article devoid of mentioning “food” and inflation, Sidhi Mittal asks What can the climate movement learn from the student protests in India?
While there is food on the table in the Industrialised North, the Climate movement learns nothing from food riots and those of us looking ahead are barely believed by people whose larder is still full.
ECONOMY LEAD STORY
‘Climateflation’ strikes, fossil fuel dependence and extreme weather impacts push up daily living costs permanently: report: India is reeling under the impact of rising food prices and union external affairs minister S. Jaishankar has warned of an imminent food crisis in South Asia. New global research has led to the alarm bells ringing louder.
Climate change and extreme weather events are converting temporary local food shortages into a structural, ongoing driver of global inflation, says new research released on Wednesday by Zero Carbon Analytics (ZCA), an international research group providing analysis on climate change and energy transition. The phenomenon has been dubbed “climateflation”. https://theplurals.in/economy/climateflation-strikes-fossil-fuel-and-extreme-weather-impact-push-up-daily-living-costs-permanently-global-report/
As the climate Radical Flank increasingly moves towards homesteading and preparedness, the moderate flank are left to the mediocrity of a leadership awash with money, isulated from climateflation and shrinkflation by wealth.
The oil, climate and supply chain crisis fuel economic collapse
BENGALURU, Oct 8 (Reuters) – India’s consumer inflation likely accelerated in September, moving closer to the upper end of the Reserve Bank of India’s 2%-6% target range as higher energy costs compounded pressure from elevated food prices, a Reuters poll of economists showed.
Rising crude oil prices and higher food costs are expected to have pushed inflation higher last month. Brent crude has climbed above $100 a barrel, while a deficient monsoon has driven up food prices. Food and beverages account for about 40% of India’s consumer price index basket. https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-inflation-likely-accelerated-september-food-energy-pressures-2026-10-08/
https://amp.dw.com/en/india-faces-water-and-power-shortages-after-weak-monsoon/a-79599540
Indias water bankruptcy was not only known it was the warning.
Ramesh Reddy, 44, put everything he had into his 3.5 acre (0.4 hectares) tomato farm in June. The farmer from Kolar district in the south of the state of Karnataka invested 320,000 rupees (€3,000, $3,357), borrowing 250,000 rupees at 24% annual interest and pledging his wife’s wedding jewelry as collateral.
The harvest was meant to repay the loan and cover his son’s overdue college fees. But then the farm’s irrigation well ran dry. Within three weeks, the tomato plants had turned brown and Reddy could not salvage a single crate.
“I have lost everything I invested,” he told DW. “I have no money left for the next crop and I don’t know how I will repay the loan.”
He is now negotiating a job as a security guard in the state capital, Bengaluru, and preparing to leave his farmland behind
The indian Government however pumps out the propaganda
Speaking to news agency ANI, 16th Finance Commission chairman Arvind Panagariya said the country has bolstered its fertiliser supplies and shown that it can withstand recent energy shocks.
Earlier this week, foreign minister S Jaishankar said that the Ukraine and West Asia conflicts were affecting grain exports and fertiliser production, while energy costs and tighter financial conditions were adding further strain on developing economies. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/india-unlikely-to-face-major-food-fertiliser-crisis-despite-global-headwinds-finance-commission-chairman/amp_articleshow/134658642.cms
On paper, India’s southwest monsoon ended 13 per cent below the long-period average, a deficit figure that can make a poor rainfall season appear less severe than the conditions unfolding on the ground.
On September 29, 2026, when the countrywide monsoon rainfall deficit stood at around 12 per cent, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said there was “no major crisis at the national level”, although he acknowledged problems in some regions.
But in several states, the situation on the ground has been far more serious, with prolonged dry spells, depleted soil moisture and crop losses prompting formal drought declarations since late August.
As the world wrestles with the existential threats posed by climate change, water is no longer a matter of managing a natural resource. It is now about urgently addressing the systemic and structural vulnerabilities that have emerged from the misuse of water over the centuries, especially as the definitions of water scarcity, water stress, and water crises, used hitherto to identify and respond to water issues, may no longer adequately reflect the severity of current global hydrological concerns.
The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health’s (UNU-INWEH) latest study has coined the term “water bankruptcy” to describe emerging trends in global water dynamics. The study, ‘Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era,’ defines water bankruptcy as the near-permanent erosion of the natural resilience and recovery of water ecosystems due to the exploitation of water beyond its renewable capacity. https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/from-water-stress-to-water-bankruptcy-urban-india-s-new-hydrological-reality
A hydrological reality mostly ignored by a climate movement talking about making preparedness more generative & spiritual befor they have even grasped its meaning. The failure of the various climate preparedness influencers and grifters to talk about UK “water bankruptcy“, and one of the solutions being rainwater harvesting simply demonstrates they are under-qualified to talk about the subject, or they include it with their anti stockpiling stance. Iran and now India are the dying canaryin the coalmine. We are next, and it wont be long.
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