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Maharashtra's water tanker demand doubles in a year -Rangoli Agrawal

-Hindustan Times/ Howindialives.com

According to the Water and Sanitation Support Organisation, government of Maharashtra, the number of water tankers ordered from May till the third week of June has kept rising and stood at 42,680, against 10,801 during the corresponding period of 2018—an increase of about four times.

As the monsoons finally covered more parts of Maharashtra last week, government data from a related metric shows just how grim the water situation is in parts of the state compared to last year.

According to the Water and Sanitation Support Organisation, government of Maharashtra, the number of water tankers ordered from May till the third week of June has kept rising and stood at 42,680, against 10,801 during the corresponding period of 2018—an increase of about four times.

This data covers 34 of 36 districts in Maharashtra (data for Mumbai and Mumbai Suburban was not available), and includes both government and private tankers. In 16 of these 34 districts, the number of water tankers ordered during this period was more than double its corresponding number in May 2018. Six of these 16 districts are in the sub-region of Marathwada, four in Khandesh, and three apiece in Paschim Maharashtra and Vidarbha.

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