India has the highest number of people in the world without access to safe water, a report released to mark World Water Day showed Tuesday.The country has 75.8 million people, at least 5% of its 1.25 billion population, without access to clean water, the reportby WaterAid, a water and sanitation nonprofit headquartered in London, says.The majority of those people come from impoverished communities–living on around $4.31 a day–and is forced to collect dirty water from open ponds and rivers or spend most of what they earn buying water from tankers, the report says. “If they have the opportunity to buy water from a tanker it can cost 1 rupee ($0.015) per liter, sometimes double if supplies are scarce,” the report, “Water: At What Cost? The State of the World’s Water 2016,” says.

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