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India: India's drought migrants head to cities in desperate search for water

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Source: Guardian
Country: India

Parts of India are being parched by a drought that means farmers are unable to irrigate their fields, with some areas even running out of drinking water

No one in the slum of Murtinagar wants to play with Temri and Chinna. The brother and sister don’t speak the local Hindi or Marathi languages – they came here, to Mumbai, India’s financial capital, 10 days ago from their village, Andhra, and grew up speaking the regional language of Telegu. Jaya Kummari, their mother, brought Chinna and Temri to Mumbai because of a drought that has left Andhra without water.

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