Hard measures for drinking water in India

Village push each other to fill their pitchers from a municipal water tanker at Voua village, north of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, May 12, 2011. According to the locals two water tanker with the capacity of 6000 litre each are supplied a day by a village civic body for a population around 5000. Technological wizardry may have improved forecasting of the crucial monsoon rains in India, but success still remains, at best, patchy, making it tough for farmers to plan crops and meet demand in the trillion-dollar economy. This year, the country has forecast a normal monsoon. [Photo/Agencies]