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Water
conflicts
Summer comes to India every year. Along with
it comes water crisis
As wells, ponds and taps dry up, women begin
to walk the village streets and city roads with pots and pitchers
looking for a water-point. As municipality water-tankers and government-run
water trains begin to traverse the length and breadth of the country,
people gather on street corners, village squares and in front of municipality
offices. They murmur, growl, throw stones, and fight...
Water is becoming a cause for social conflicts
Protests, demonstrations, road-blockades, riots. City-dwellers against
farmers. Villages against towns. Towns against cities. Citizens against
the government. People against people. Increasingly, these (usually
local) conflicts are taking on the general shape of a bitter war for
water.
Is there a way out? What should we do? Hang down our heads in shame?
Or, should we look up?
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