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Kalahandi reels under crisis [1]

BHAWANIPATNA: Many areas of Kalahandi are under the grip of water crisis. Long dry spell and erratic rainfall in the last monsoon have resulted in depletion of groundwater.

The river beds of Udanti, Ret and Sandool had already dried up and in the absence of alternative drinking water sources, villagers are digging up

Publication Date: 
26/04/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar) [2]
Tags:
Water Resources [3], Groundwater [4], Drinking Water Scarcity [5], Water Supply [6], Orissa (Odisha) [7], Kalahandi [8], Bhawanipatna [9]
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