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Desert-prone Rajasthan, in northern India along the border with Pakistan, faced its fifth year of drought in 2003. The results have been devastating: ground water is no longer available and drinking water rusty with metal dust from government pipelines is unfit for use. This picture, shot in 2000 during the state's third year of drought, shows a tree outside the village of Kotra piled high with the carcasses of dead animals. Between March 2002 and 2003, drought scenes like this throughout India -- particularly in the country's breadbasket North -- helped chip a percentage point off India's annual economic growth, India's Reserve Bank reported, to stand at 4.3 percent.
Photo: Savita Kirloskar/Reuters
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