A recent report published by the United Nations University — Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) has raised a red flag regarding India’s dwindling groundwater levels.

The ‘Interconnected Disaster Risks Report 2023’ focuses on six environmental tipping points, including groundwater depletion, and reveals a dire situation worldwide.

• Accelerating extinctions: A chain reaction to ecosystem collapse
• Groundwater depletion: Draining water, risking food supply
• Mountain glaciers melting: Running on thin ice
• Space debris: Losing eyes in the sky
• Unbearable heat: Living in the unliveable
• Uninsurable future: With rising risks, insurance becomes unreachable

The 2023 Interconnected Disaster Risks report also proposes a new framework to classify and discuss the effectiveness of solutions that can help humanity address risk tipping points. The resulting framework has four categories: 

1. Avoid-Delay
2. Avoid-Transform
3. Adapt-Delay 
4. Adapt-Transform