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At 76 million, India has the largest number of people living without access to safe water in the world, and experts warn of a looming crisis as over 73 per cent of the country's aquifers are being overdrawn. According to a 2016 WaterAid report 75,777,997 people, or about six per cent of India's population, don't have access to clean water. The report added that while aquifers provide 85 per cent of drinking water, their levels are falling in 56 per cent of the country. The government, meanwhile, has announced that it will spend Rs 25,000 crore (almost $4 billion) to connect about 28,000 affected habitations with safe drinking water by March 2021.