When the rains failMany of India’s problems are summed up in its mismanagement of water. Now a scanty monsoon has made matters much worse Reuters RAINFALL last month encouraged Haniya, a middle-aged member of the Lambada tribe of southern Andhra Pradesh (AP), to inspect his one-acre (0.4-hectare) field. Some speckles of green, to show the red earth had held enough water for weeds to shoot, would h
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