Re: Drought

The monsoon is late, the wells are running dry and in the teeming city of Bhopal, water supply is now a deadly issue. Gethin Chamberlain reports

It was a little after 8pm when the water started flowing through the pipe running beneath the dirt streets of Bhopal's Sanjay Nagar slum. After days without a drop of water, the Malviya family were the first to reach the hole they had drilled in the pipe, filling what containers they had as quickly as they could. Within minutes, three of them were dead, hacked to death by angry neighbours who accused them of stealing water.

In Bhopal, and across much of northern India, a late monsoon and the driest June for 83 years are exacerbating the effects of a widespread drought and setting neighbour against neighbour in a desperate fight for survival.

the rest at the link...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/12/india-water-supply-bhopal

this is just the beginning if we do not immediately stop dumping wastes into the waters... and injecting them into the earth through injection wells.

I have worked in areas where we were allotted 2.5 gallons of water a day... and that included what we had to bathe in.

Not fun when one is used to a seemingly endless supply... oh how much we take for granted... and how very naive we are about our wasteful ways until coming face to face with realities like this in other parts of the world.

grz-