Thursday, June 20, 2019

Acute water shortages hit parts of India amid searing heat wave | CBC News

Climate Denial Kills
The southeastern city of Chennai is depending on water tanker trucks as taps run dry.
All four reservoirs that supply Chennai, known as the Detroit of south Asia for its flourishing automobile industry, have run dry this summer, largely because of poor monsoon rains last year.
Chennai is one of 21 cities that a government think-tank warned last year could run out of ground water by 2020. This year's monsoon is delayed, further compounding problems across a swath of western and central India.

People in New Delhi are also being forced to rely on tankers delivering water amid a searing heat wave. (Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)
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