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New data in WRI's Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas showed the lion's share of the most thirsty countries are located in the largely arid Middle East and North Africa region.

Qatar is the most water-stressed country, followed by Israel and Lebanon.

India ranked 13th among "extremely high" water-stressed nations. But with a population of more than 1.3 billion, it has over three times more people than the other 16 countries combined whose agriculture, industry and municipalities depend on avoiding water "bankruptcy".

In recent weeks, India's sixth-largest city, Chennai, was the latest metropolis worldwide to warn its taps could run dry, as reservoir levels plunged.

That followed similar countdowns to water "Day Zero" in South Africa's Cape Town last year and Brazil's Sao Paulo inChris Ma and 13 of her relatives learned their WestJet flight home had been cancelled when they arrived at the San Juan airport.

Unbeknownst to them, the flight had actually been cancelled nearly a month earlier when WestJet suspended service to Puerto Rico.

"We were super shocked," says Ma, who lives in Toronto. "It was just really upsetting."

The family had just finished a Caribbean cruise that docked in Puerto Rico's capital on Nov. 4.

"We were stranded," Ma says. "We were just so worried."

The family scrambled and eventually did find a way home — four days later, and at a huge cost.

They had to shell out $15,550 total to book last-minute flights on other airlines and stay three extra nights in a San Juan hotel.

"All the money and time that we