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India heat wave tests water supply as deaths near 2,000
India
Thousands of water tankers were delivering supplies to more than 4,000 villages and hamlets facing acute water shortages Image: AFP
Dizzying temperatures have caused water shortages in thousands of Indian villages and killed hundreds more people over the past day, driving the death toll from a weeks-long heat wave to at least 1,826, officials have said...Meteorological officials have called the heat wave "severe" and warned that it would continue for at least another two days across a huge swath of the South Asian country from Tamil Nadu in the south to the Himalayan foothill state of Himachal Pradesh.
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