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Mass Farmer Suicide Sobering Reminder of Consequences of Water Shortages
Posted on Apr 15, 2009 by Sean Daily.
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In one of the more tragic stories related to water shortage in recent history, some 1,500 farmers in India’s agricultural state of Chhattisgarh committed mass suicide in response to the devastating effects of water shortages on their crop production.
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