On the other side of the globe, in Barcelona, Spain, people are paying a fine of $13,000 if they were caught watering their gardens.
According to media reports, a tanker ship is docked in Barcelona this month carrying 5 million gallons of precious fresh water and officials are scrambling to line up more such shipments to slake public thirst.
A, Cyprus is ferrying water from Greece. Australian cities are buying water from farmers and building desalination plants.
Thirsty China plans to divert Himalayan water. In southern California, citizens are bracing to face water-rationing.
So, the world may go to war for water in the coming years. Experts say that water is the oil of this century.
Image: Children playing on a waterlogged road in New Delhi. | Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images
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