India water scarcity

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Indian women and children wait for a municipal water supply tanker to arrive in Ramol, outskirts of Ahmadabad, India, Sunday, May 11, 2014. As India faces certain water scarcity and ecological decline, the country’s main political parties campaigning for elections have all but ignored environmental issues seen as crucial to India’s vast rural majority, policy analysts say. With 814 million eligible voters, India?s weeks long general election runs through May 12, with results for the 543-seat lower house of Parliament set to be announced May 16.