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Article: Farmers, City Dwellers Vie For Scarce Water in India;New Delhi Runs Dry in Midst of Drought, Heat Wave
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- The Washington Post
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- May 2, 1988
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Taps began running dry across India's sprawling capital city last
week, bringing home to lawmakers and opinion shapers something both
villagers and city dwellers could have told them months ago: India
does not have enough water to go around.
As temperatures advanced over 100 degrees several days ago, the
level at the Chandrawal water works began dropping precipitously. On
Thursday it dropped too low to permit water to be taken into the
capital's distribution system. With that, large areas of the city
began experiencing the shortages that have plagued communities at the
end of the supply network for the past several weeks.
Even in the best of times, large areas of New Delhi, a city of
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