What’s behind the drying taps in urban India?

What’s behind the drying taps in urban India?

As the summer intensifies, turning on a tap is no longer a mundane routine across India’s smaller cities1—it has become a moment of uncertainty. In some neighbourhoods, water flows regularly, even abundantly. In others, however, residents wait three to five days, adjust to midnight supply slots, or rely entirely on borewells and tankers. In Parasia, a town in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district, residents get water once every five to seven days…