Water shortages forge huge market (BBC) MUMBAI, India – In a city where clean water has become a commodity that is delivered to the highest bidder, the poor often have to go without.
Yet those who have money can easily get enough. In Mumbai’s wealthy suburbs, large tankers delivering water are commonplace.
Every day more than 5,000 tankers deliver some 50 million litres of water to people who can pay, according to unofficial estimates cited by the newspaper Mumbai Mirror. But even if the wealthy were to go without such top-up deliveries, there would probably not be enough water to go around.
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