Worst drought in India in decades blamed on official incompetence [1]

TheNattional-March7,2013-Agence France Presse

MUMBAI // Millions of people in western India are suffering their worst drought in more than four decades, with critics blaming official ineptitude and corruption for exacerbating the natural water shortage.

Central areas of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, are facing a water shortage worse than the severe drought in 1972, the state's chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said.

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