Water
The Deep Water Crisis
No other town can boast as deep a connection with the rest of the country as this little one in Tamil Nadu. Machines from here have struck great depths in most Indian States (and in […]
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Drilling holes in the Thirst Economy
“Only two of them work,” says Badri Kharat of his borewells in Roshangaon. That’s hard — when you’ve sunk 36 of them spending millions of rupees, as he has. Kharat, a big landowner and local […]
Water
Tankers and the economy of thirst
Thirst is Marathwada’s greatest crop this season. Forget sugarcane. Thirst, human and industrial, eclipses anything else. Those harvesting it reap tens of millions of rupees each day across the region. The van loads of dried-out […]