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Mayor blames scarce rainfall for water crisis [1]

Facing flak from all corners over the existing water crisis, the severest one in the recent past, Indore Mayor Dr Umashashi Sharma here today tried to shift the blame for the crisis to scarce rainfall saying that the city in the last monsoon received only 517 mm of rainfall which is almost half of the average rainfall, the lowest in the past 38 years.

Publication Date: 
15/05/2009
Central Chronicle (Bhopal) [2]
Tags:
Drinking Water Scarcity [3], Water Supply [4], Madhya Pradesh [5], Rainfall [6]
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