INDIA-UN-ENVIRONMENT-WATER

To go with story 'India-UN-environment-water' by Claire Cozens In this photograph taken on March 16, 2015, Indian activist, Diwan Singh, who is campaigning for the city to divert rainwater drains that currently flow into the sewage system into lakes and ponds to replenish the water table, points to a dried up pond full of trash and overgrowth in the Dwarka sector of New Delhi. Rambir Singh still remembers when the wells in his village on New Delhi's southwestern edge were filled with sweet-tasting water and livestock drank from the small ponds that dotted the area. Decades of population growth and uncontrolled urbanisation have created a water crisis in India, now the world's fastest-growing major economy. AFP PHOTO / Roberto SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)