"Chennai sucking up rural water", is a report by Krithika Ramalingam, written in April 2005, on how farmers of two rural districts outside Chennai, over the last five years, have started selling water from their irrigation wells to the city's water utility, to the detriment of cultivation in their own lands and those of neighbouring farmers.
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