India, July 1 -- As climate extremes become the new normal, India urgently needs a unified water governance framework. A 'One Water for All' approach-integrating urban, rural and forest landscapes into a single hydrological strategy-offers the only durable pathway to safeguarding livelihoods, biodiversity and long-term economic resilience.

Amid an escalating global climate crisis, India's environmental security has reached a critical inflection point due to a huge monsoon deficit across the core agrarian and central forest zones. In a nation where the southwest monsoon acts as the economic lifeblood, this severe climatic stalling-compounded by an intensifying El Nino-threatens to destabilize the national economy, rural livelihoods, and o...