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13
Jul
2012
8:38am, EDT
Patchy monsoon leaves Indians scrambling for water
Kevin Frayer / AP
Residents run towards a government tanker delivering drinking water in New Delhi, India on July 6, 2012.
Kevin Frayer / AP
Residents crowd around a government water tanker in New Delhi on July 6, 2012.
Many areas of New Delhi are facing acute water shortages, The Associated Press reports, a repeated annual phenomenon during summer when taps go dry as demand rises.
The Times of India reported on July 11 that levels in 84 reservoirs monitored by government agencies are at 57% of last year's capacity following a patchy start to the monsoon season.
Previously on PhotoBlog: Managing a growing world population with a shrinking water supply
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Kevin Frayer / AP
A woman holds her child and joins a crowd around a government tanker delivering drinking water in New Delhi on July 12, 2012.
Kevin Frayer / AP
Residents crowd around a tanker in New Delhi on July 6, 2012.
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A man sucks on a hose to pull water as a crowd gathers around a tanker in New Delhi on July 13, 2012.
Kevin Frayer / AP
A woman carries buckets filled with water from a tanker in New Delhi on July 6, 2012.

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Opportunities seem to abound to individuals and businesses to reach out and help others all over the world. While food surplus is allowed to be dumped and rot in the sun in one place, children and adults starve to death in others. Where excess rainfall is allowed to flood and runoff wasted, others …
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29
Jun
2012
8:17am, EDT
India floods displace more than 850,000
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A mahout moves an elephant to higher ground as villagers paddle with their belongings through flood waters in the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, some 55 km from Guwahati, the capital city of Assam, India on June 28, 2012.
Raging floodwaters fed by monsoon rains have inundated more than 2,000 villages in northeast India, sweeping away homes and forcing more than 850,000 people to flee their homes.
Floodwaters have submerged 90 per cent of a wildlife sanctuary in Assam, forcing rhinos and other wild animals to shelter in the woodland of the park which is located at a higher altitude.
-- The Associated Press and Agence France Presse contributed to this report
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Wild Asiatic water buffalo run to take shelter on high ground inside the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in the flood-affected Morigaon district of Assam on June 28, 2012. The sanctuary has been underwater for two days.
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A man pauses before making his way through flood waters at Burhaburhi village, about 40 miles east of Guwahati on June 29, 2012.

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That would be so cool to have an elephant
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