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September 19, 2013

Water supply a problem for New Delhi's poor
New Delhi (UPI) Sep 18, 2013
New Delhi's poor are hardest hit by the Indian city's inadequate water supply. In most of the city's unauthorized urban settlements, such as Sangam Vihar - a crowded unauthorized urban settlement, home to about a million people - the city government does not provide piped water, The New York Times reports. Instead, the government dug 118 bore-wells from which water can be drawn. Contractors, usually affiliated with political parties, have run pipes connecting the supply from the bore- ... read more

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