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The informal water markets of Bangalore are a view of the future

  • Written by Georgina Drew, Lecturer, University of Adelaide
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Bangalore is home to some ten million people. It might also be the next city to experience “day zero”: when it runs out of ground water entirely.

But in settlements just outside the city centre, people already live without municipal water supplies. Our research found that families – largely women...

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