Water, Food, and Energy :: The question of sustainability around India’s water-food-energy choke point is becoming ever more plain in the prime food-growing states of northern India, as well as in the coal-producing energy states to the southeast. The nation’s 20 million electricity-consuming groundwater are the most significant reason that the farm sector sucked up 17 percent of the 772.6 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity that India consumed from its utilities in 2011. (Image © Aubrey Ann Parker / Circle of Blue)