Kshitij, Mohan; Ajai, Srivastava; Praveen, Rai Kumar - In: Quaestiones Geographicae 30 (2011) 3, pp. 47-60
The city of Varanasi is short of water. The city obtains a total of 270 million litres water from the river Ganga and tubewells. Yet every fifth citizen lacks drinking water. The ground water is polluted due to nitrate and faecal coliform. A further problem is the plan to settle the growing...