NAVINWADI: Far from the gleaming high-rises of India's financial capital Mumbai, impoverished villages in areas supplying the megacity's water are running dry - a crisis repeated across the country that
NAVINWADI: Far from the gleaming high-rises of India 's financial capital Mumbai, impoverished villages in areas supplying the megacity's water are running dry -
But experts say a failure of basic planning means that the network is often not connected to hundreds of rural villages in the region and several nearby districts.But demand far outstrips meagre resources, and critical groundwater levels are falling. The area is also the source of major reservoirs supplying about 60 per cent of water to Mumbai, local government authorities say.
"We've been requesting governments for years to ensure that the water available at the dams also reaches us," she said."But it just keeps getting worse." It also warned of"increasing water shortages, depleting groundwater tables and deteriorating resource quality".
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