PHOTOS: Delhi-Mumbai’s struggle for water

The first Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat may believe that the water crisis is a media creation, but the photographs below suggest otherwise.

The summer seems long and unending, and with the delayed monsoons, things are indeed looking grim.

With lakes and other water sources drying up, even metropolises like Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi are in the grip of a severe water crisis.

Reports say that firms on Chennai’s IT corridor have asked their employees to work from home because of the water scarcity; in Mumbai, the lake levels are dipping alarmingly. In the national capital, the first Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat may believe that the water crisis is a media creation, but the photographs below suggest otherwise.

Who would believe that in the world’s fifth fastest largest economy — or is it third? — and the one with the highest GDP growth, water would be at a premium, in some places even more dear than gold!

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