Re: Subject: Re: Suicides, Military and Economic

[Anthony D'Costa <dcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday my school buddy returned after having spent 2 months in
Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh.  He is an IT guy so he
attributed the suicides partly to water shortage, consistent with limited
monsoon rain in the region.  But what he said was that Chandra Babu Naidu
the laptop toting chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, who was recently
ousted in the elections, transferred massive water to the urban, high tech
driven city, at the expense of the rural folks.  The water table is
drastically falling in the southern region and virtually all major
southern cities (Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai) are all facing massive
water supply problems.

cheers, anthony
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Comparative International Development
University of Washington                        Campus Box 358436
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On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Ulhas Joglekar wrote:

> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> > Yes, but why are they localized in only 1 state?
> > Aren't these problems more widespread?
>
> I have not studied the pattern of rainfall region by
> region. Distribution of monsoon varies from region to
> region and within each region its timing during
> June-September monsoon period. Some regions also get
> rains in winter, others have irrigation based on snow
> fed rivers. Without that sort of study (which I have
> not done), it's hard to explain why, e.g. we don't
> hear about suicides by Karnataka farmers _on the same
> scale_ as those in Andhra Pradesh?
>
> Ulhas
>
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