In Teeming India, Water Crisis Means Dry Pipes and Foul Sludge
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A crisis decades in the making has reduced middle-class people in New Delhi, IndiaÂs richest city, to foraging for water.
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With drought conditions intensifying across the Southeast, efforts to conserve water are popping up everywhere Â even at the aquarium.
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Asian farmers drilling millions of pump-operated wells in an ever-deeper search for water are threatening to suck the continent&#39;s underground reserves dry, a science magazine warned on Wednesday.
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It's taking on water, and debt.
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Water supplies on some Indian Ocean islands may have been ruined for years or decades by salt water from the tsunami.
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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Drinking water supplies in parts of Gloucestershire could run dry by Sunday evening as a water treatment plant is "overwhelmed".
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As urbanites with rising incomes are demanding better air and water, the countryside is increasingly becoming a dumping ground.
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A tenth of the world&#39;s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage. And much of that sewage is raw and untreated, gushing direct from sewer pipes into fields at the fringes of the developing ...
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Hundreds of thousands of people  remained stranded with little food and water for a seventh day  in eastern India, while heavy rains continued to pour in the  west sparking more flooding, officials said on Tuesday.
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 25--When the Petersens' well ran dry in June, the family dealt with the lack of water the best they could.   The Prunedale residents spent hundreds of dollars for thousands of gallons of water to be trucked to their home.
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People in India and Pakistan struggle to cope with the effects of three days of rain that left 350 dead.
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An essential class of workers, garbage collectors in Indiaâs capital are among the cityâs poorest and most marginalized groups.
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Floodwaters from upstream India have swamped some 80 villages in southwestern Bangladesh, marooning at least 65,000 people, officials said Sunday.
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A number of homes in County Tyrone are again without water after a pipe burst at a reservoir.
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Asia is expected to face a serious shortage of fresh water due to climate change, with more than one billion people forecast to be hit by the crisis, a US State Department report warned Wednesday.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - Flooding triggered by   monsoon rains in the past few days have left 1.5 million people   homeless and damaged thousands of acres of paddy crop in the   eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said on Sunday.