Thursday, July 19, 2012

The city which has ONE TAP for 100,000 people



The city which has ONE TAP for 100,000 people:
Crowded slum where people are forced to queue for hours to get water A New Delhi neighbourhood provides a snapshot of the 'growing crisis' facing the Indian city, where water is becoming harder to come by A single tap - which the government turns on just three times a day - is shared by around 100,000 people in one area of India's capital Families report high levels of sickness among children forced to drink contaminated water because of the lack of sanitation India has 18 per cent of the world's population; but just four per cent of the world's renewable water sources

By SARA SIDNER PUBLISHED: 15:05 GMT, 16 July 2012 |
UPDATED: 15:54 GMT, 16 July 2012

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174295/New-Delhi-slum-One-tap-100-000.html#ixzz20zZt4TU7

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