In Pictures: India’s water crisis
As March 22 marks World Water Day, a nationwide crisis looms over India as several major cities could soon be grappling with severe water shortages.
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A man on the dried Bheeman Kuppa Lake on the outskirts of Bangalore, India, on March 1, 2024. The city is facing a steep water crisis due to a severe drought.
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The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board said the situation was manageable in central areas but more serious on the city's outskirts.
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Women on their way to fill their pots with water from a river in the Pattan area, some 22km north of Srinagar city, Kashmir, India, on March 18, 2024.
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A woman filling a pot with water from a river in Pattan on March 18, 2024. Five villages in the Pattan area have not had a reliable potable water supply for the past 25 years.
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The woman filling a storage barrel with the water she fetched from the river. Residents in the Pattan area have said that they often suffer from water-borne diseases from drinking contaminated water.
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A woman getting water from a tap in Pattan on March 18, 2024. The villages in the area receive only a two-hour supply of water on alternate days.
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A stretch of the sacred Yamuna River in New Delhi, India, is seen covered with toxic foam on March 19, 2024. The white froth is made of a mixture of sewage and industrial waste.
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People taking a dip among the waste in the Ganges River in Kolkata, West Bengal, on March 7, 2024. The National Green Tribunal, a judicial body, has found the entire stretch of the river in the state unfit for bathing due to high levels of faecal coliform bacteria.
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A bird flying over the Dahisar River, which runs through a residential area in Mumbai, India, on March 6, 2024. Due to discharge of raw sewage from slums and industries situated along the banks, it has become highly polluted.
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The polluted Dahisar River was once so picturesque that movies were filmed there.
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