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Most Indian cities to go dry by 2020
February 10, 2009
Quoting a World Bank study, it said of the 27 Asian cities with population of over 10 lakh (1 million), Chennai and Delhi were ranked as the worst performing metropolitan cities in terms of water availability per day, while Mumbai was ranked as second worst performer, and Kolkata the fourth worst.
Severe water shortage had already led to a growing number of conflicts across the country, with 90 per cent of India's territory served by inter-state rivers.
Image: Drought-hit farmers stand on their paddy field on the outskirts of Ambala in Haryana. | Photograph: Dipak Kumar R/Reuters
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