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Madhumitha Viswanath ByExpress News ServiceCHENNAI: A recent global study by the World Resource Institute has put Chennai on the map for being an ‘extremely water-stressed’ city. A majority of districts in Tamil Nadu and Chennai, were found to have extremely high levels of water stress, exceeding 80 per cent. The report also predicted that both Chennai and other parts of the State will have extremely high demand for drinking water by 2030. The report was prepared using the institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas that ranked 189 countries across the globe on issues like water stress, drought risk, and flood risk. Raj Bhagat Palanichamy, an earth observation expert part of WRI, India, said there are five major solutions to bring down the water stress level of Chennai, in particular..