Water crisis grows worse as India gets richer

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/28/news/water.php

NEW DELHI The quest for water can drive a woman mad. Ask Ritu Prasher. Every day, Prasher, a homemaker in a middle-class neighborhood of the capital, rises at 6:30 a.m. and begins fretting about water.

It is a rare morning when water trickles through the pipes. More often, not a drop will come. So Prasher will have to call a private water tanker, wait for it to show up, call again, wait some more and worry about whether there are enough buckets filled in the bathroom in case no water arrives.

"Your whole day goes just planning how you'll get water," Prasher, 45, recounted one morning this summer, cellphone in hand and ready to press redial for the water tanker. "You become so edgy all the time
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Water is a Big Issue in a nation that is growing way to fast...

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1. This is a big problem in many countries.

Some think it wont happen here but it can.