Far from the gleaming high-rises of India’s financial capital Mumbai, impoverished villages in areas supplying the megacity’s water are running dry — a crisis repeated across the country that experts say foreshadows terrifying problems.

/”Whatever water we have, all of that goes to the city (Mumbai) and our situation remains as it was and we don’t get water to drink,/” says Sunita Pandurang Satgir.

Demand is increasing in the world’s most populous nation of 1.4 billion people, but supplies are shrinking — with climate change driving erratic rainfall and extreme heat.

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