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Accompanied by her children, a woman treks across a dried-out lake in search of water in the western Indian state of Gujarat. More than 75 percent of India's rural population does not have access to public water supplies, the World Bank reports. Instead, groundwater fills the needs. But when rain stops and temperatures soar, villagers -- as in this photo -- go without. Builders of the Sardar Sarovar mega-dam claim their project will eventually bring drinking water to 45 percent of Gujarat's villages. That supply of drinking water began in 2001, they claim. Dam opponents charge, however, that Sardar Sarovar's budget contains no funding for provision of drinking water to village communities.
Photo: Amit Dave/Reuters
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