Water Scarcity
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In Ghana, ATMs are providing low-income communities easy access to clean water
These low-cost, self-contained, automated water vending machines are popping up as a way to expand affordable water services.
Godfred Amankwaa, The Conversation
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In UP, Centre’s hope to provide safe tap water to all by 2024 may remain a pipe dream
More than half the rural households have functional connections, but for the poor, water remains scarce.
Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com, Geeta Devi, IndiaSpend.com & Meera Devi, IndiaSpend.com
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In summers, hospitals in Uttarakhand struggle to provide healthcare because of lack of water
As water shortages become more common in the Himalayan state, hospitals in some parts are unable to follow even basic hygiene practices.
Cheena Kapoor
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Chennai drought: How water distribution system reflects residents’ social power, bias against poor
When flow are low, poor people who often live at the tail-end of the lines remain unserved.
Karen Coelho
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Andhra Pradesh: Woman killed in clash at a public tap amid water shortage
The 38-year-old was waiting for her turn to fill her pot when another woman got into the queue out of turn.
Scroll Staff
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Chennai water crisis: MK Stalin leads protests, blames AIADMK for ‘inefficient handling’ of shortage
The DMK chief said the state government, which is in the Centre’s clutches, had not taken any initiative to avert the situation.
Scroll Staff
Video
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TN government asks schools to remain open amid water crisis in Chennai
The state education department said that the schools had no reason to shut down as it was their responsibility to make alternate arrangements.
Scroll Staff
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‘We need every drop of water’: Tamil Nadu CM thanks Kerala for offering to supply drinking water
Edappadi K Palaniswami brought up the Mullaperiyar dam matter even as he claimed some reports of a severe water crisis in his state were not true.
Scroll Staff
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Kerala offers 20 lakh litres of drinking water to Tamil Nadu, but says state has rejected it
The Pinarayi Vijayan-led government said it wanted to send the water by train from Thiruvananthapuram to Chennai.
Scroll Staff
The Reel
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With 23 of Karnataka 30 districts declared drought-hit, farmers are selling precious cattle
As crops have failed, villagers are migrating to other states in search of work.
S Shankar, IndiaSpend.com
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Water crisis: Some schools in Karnataka shut for an extra week; 5,000 villages hit in Maharashtra
Water levels are alarmingly low in different parts of the country, and the onset of the monsoon will be delayed by a few days.
Scroll Staff
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Uttarakhand’s residents face water shortage even as state’s rivers quench North India’s thirst
Less than 50% of the population has access to adequate quantities of safe drinking water, says a CAG report.
Mayank Aggarwal
The Field
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