● A factory in India that makes iPhone parts is facing a shutdown order after authorities discovered it was discharging polluted effluent into local farmers’ water.
● Half of the world’s freshwater reservoirs may be at least half-filled with sediment by 2060, severely limiting global storage capacity, researchers warn.
● Thousands of water-scarce villages in Bangladesh face looming bans on irrigating crops with groundwater amid widespread shortages.
● India is constructing two large hydropower dams on a river it shares with Pakistan as the countries’ water-sharing treaty remains suspended.
