Towns without water

Across Delhi, taps have run dry. Water shortages in the scorching weeks just before the monsoon hits the national capital are not unknown; but there is little question that this year they have been more than normally acute. Nor, unfortunately, is Delhi’s situation unusual. While it perhaps suffers more than others – being located, after all, in a semi-arid climatic zone – cities in other parts of India also experience such scarcity annually.

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