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As a heat wave scorches Calcutta in June 2003, some of the city's 14,090,200 residents find relief at a water theme park's discotheque. Popular playgrounds for urban, educated Indians, water parks are booming in India, drought or no. The park's water luxury stands in sharp contrast to conditions in Calcutta's slums, where some 2 million residents went for days this February without public tap water after a main water line broke, the BBC reported. The city's water tables are at their lowest level in 40 years, placing additional stress on the ground and surface water that supplies Calcutta with its water. Nevertheless, the city's Web site characterizes Calcutta's water situation as "bright."
Photo: Jayanta Shaw/Reuters
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