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Most Indian cities to go dry by 2020

February 10, 2009

Climate change projections showed India's water problems were only likely to worsen and with more rain expected to fall in fewer days and the rapid melting of glaciers, especially in the western Himalayas, India would need to gear up to tackle increasing incidence of droughts and floods, the paper said.

Image: A child drinks water at a flood relief camp in Araria district town in Bihar. | Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters.

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