Asia
Western India in worse drought in decades
Thousands of villages are suffering their worst drought for 40 years after monsoon rains fail.
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2012 07:33

Thousands of villages in western India are suffering their worst drought for 40 years.

Satara, a remote area in the Maharastra state, has always been a drought prone region, but this time the situation is worse because the monsoon rains have also failed

Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports from Satara, which has not had a government water supply for decades.

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