Explore the India water crisis as Mumbai's water demand strains rural supplies, highlighting the need for sustainable solutions.
Far from the gleaming high-rises of India's financial capital Mumbai, impoverished villages in areas supplying the megacity's water are running dry -- a crisis repeated across the country that experts say foreshadows terrifying problems.
Large-scale infrastructure for Mumbai includes reservoirs connected by canals and pipelines channelling water from 100 kilometres away. When the well dries, the village then relies on a government tanker with irregular supplies, two or three times a week.Satgir's home in the dusty village of Navinwadi, near the farming town of Shahapur, lies some 100 kilometres from the busy streets of Mumbai.
"All that water from around us goes to the people in the big city and nothing has changed for us," Satgir said.Deputy village head Rupali Bhaskar Sadgir, 26, said residents were often sick from the water."We've been requesting governments for years to ensure that the water available at the dams also reaches us," she said."But it just keeps getting worse."
Groundwater resources"are being depleted at unsustainable rates", it added, noting they make up some 40 percent of total water supplies.
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