Simply put: 5,000 dry villages in Maharashtra, 6,500 tankers

Record number of tankers are sole source of water in large parts of state. Behind the crisis, late monsoon following a deficit year, depleting groundwater in 279 talukas, under 10% live storage in 13 key reservoirs.

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