as bejing halts co operation with the us on key issues including climate change in the aftermath of nancy pelosi s visit to taipei. russia and ukraine accuse each other of shelling europe s biggest nuclear power plant as ukraine s nuclear agency warns of a possible hydrogen leak and dispersal of radioactive particles. now on bbc news, india s wait for water. from the hot desert to the cold mountains and dry arid plains, only a fraction of the 200 million homes in india s villages have tap water. bbc s divya arya investigates. when you can t get water from taps, life revolves around where the water is. india s villages house 200 million families. only a fraction have tap water. it s very hard to carry lots of water repeatedly on your head from that source of water to the village, which is almost a kilometre from here. from the hot desert. ..to the cold mountains. ..and dry, arid plains. it s backbreaking. i want to find out when will the walk be over? when will water come home
but here, its lush, it s 200 metres wide, and this is the peak of summer. when it rains after monsoons, it will get even more lush, deep. and this river is now going to be used to service this dry, arid, rocky region of this area, where ground water has dried up, whatever is there is not fit for drinking. the rains are not regular. every other year is declared a drought. so the government plans to use surface water from the yamuna to take it to individual houses via tap water connections in 400 villages in this area. it isa it is a solution tried by previous governments too. then the river s water wasn t enough. it dried up and the crisis swelled again. how will
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