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
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scientists examined satellite data gathered during the past four decades over the entire arctic circle. 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 pots 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? in 2019, prime minister narendra modi made a promise. to bring water through taps to each home in every village by 202a. he said it will ease women s daily lives. i ve set out on a journey across the country to che
from being the mother of sons. sons who would bring brides, that is other women, to share her water burden. the terrain is rocky and the distance is long so 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. as the morning blends into afternoon, and it gets hotter, the task of ferrying water also becomes harder. to help women, the village council arranges water tankers in summer. each woman gets five buckets full. five buckets for the whole household. coloured in the colour of impure water. even this support is not available in