India prays for rain as water wars break out
The monsoon is late, the wells are running dry and in the teeming city of Bhopal, water supply is now a deadly issue.
It was a little after 8pm when the water started flowing through the pipe running beneath the dirt streets of Bhopal's Sanjay Nagar slum. After days without a drop of water, the Malviya family were the first to reach the hole they had drilled in the pipe, filling what containers they had as quickly as they could. Within minutes, three of them were dead, hacked to death by angry neighbours who accused them of stealing water. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu - via The Guardian (US)
