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United by water in Bangalore

  • 14/01/2003

United by water in Bangalore 15-year-old Raja lives in a slum in Koramangala locality of Bangalore city. He cycles 2 km every night to get two pots of water for his family from a public handpump. Today the city he lives in along with 6 million fellow citizens gets its supply of water from 100 kms away. An ever increasing thirst.

Raja and a group of friends were participants in a unique and unprecedented nine -day water festival. It was as if the famous Stockholm water festival was on, but this time in India.

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