How Delhi`s rising heat and a love of concrete caused a deadly water crisis
(The Guardian India)

Reports warn it could run out of groundwater by 2020. Has Delhi run out of time to reverse years of mismanagement and unchecked urbanisation?It´s about 4pm on a muggy monsoon day in Wazirpur, a low-income urban village in Delhi. A group of 30 women are lined up in the 34C heat (93F) behind an assortment of empty coolers, buckets, petrol containers - anything they can store water in once the government tanker arrives.`We´ve been here since 10am,` says 55-year-old Gudi. `You never know if the tanker will come or not - we come here every day and wait.`We never imagined someone would die over water ... This has become normalWhen we started getting all these supplies from distant places or tube wells ... we forgot about our local resourcesOur national water policy is a fine document. But nothing got put into practice on the ground Related: Heat: the next big inequality issue People have no other option. You can talk to them [about why illegal borewells are bad]. But are you giving them any alternative? Related: What would a heat-proof city look like? Continue reading...