Viewsroom: Can India solve its water crisis?
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🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the Views Room, a podcast from Reuters' Breaking Views. I'm Anthony Curry. This |
| 0:45.4 | week, we're diving into India's water crisis. The country's fourth largest city, Chennai, has |
| 0:49.9 | already effectively run dry, while shortages elsewhere are contributing to pharma suicides, |
| 0:55.1 | urban migration, and could soon inflict serious damage on the economy too. |
| 0:59.8 | Joining us on the line to discuss all of this and more is our India columnist Unigalani. |
| 1:04.3 | You know, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:06.5 | Thank you, Anthony. Great to be here. |
| 1:08.4 | Thanks taking time out. I know it's in the evening over there. |
| 1:11.3 | But let's jump in. So let's start. Actually, I think that the news today is actually not about water scarcity, but about actually flash floods. Is that right? |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, well, Mumbai is large parts of the city are underwater. We've had the driest June in about five years, but in the last 48 hours, |
| 1:28.1 | we've had torrential rains. And this is all part of what people say is climate change. |
| 1:32.6 | You know, in the cities, you'll have fewer rain days, but when it does rain, it will pour. |
| 1:37.6 | And as you alluded to, just a few, you know, just earlier this month, we've seen the car making city of, well, |
| 1:46.1 | basically India's Detroit, Chennai, is facing quite the opposite problems. |
| 1:51.6 | You know, they've basically run out of water, as you said. |
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