Yesterday my school buddy returned after having spent 2 months in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh. He is an IT guy so he attributed the suicides partly to water shortage, consistent with limited monsoon rain in the region. But what he said was that Chandra Babu Naidu the laptop toting chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, who was recently ousted in the elections, transferred massive water to the urban, high tech driven city, at the expense of the rural folks. The water table is drastically falling in the southern region and virtually all major southern cities (Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai) are all facing massive water supply problems.
cheers, anthony xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington Campus Box 358436 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Ulhas Joglekar wrote: > Michael Perelman wrote: > > > Yes, but why are they localized in only 1 state? > > Aren't these problems more widespread? > > I have not studied the pattern of rainfall region by > region. Distribution of monsoon varies from region to > region and within each region its timing during > June-September monsoon period. Some regions also get > rains in winter, others have irrigation based on snow > fed rivers. Without that sort of study (which I have > not done), it's hard to explain why, e.g. we don't > hear about suicides by Karnataka farmers _on the same > scale_ as those in Andhra Pradesh? > > Ulhas > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online > Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/ >
