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India sees highest rains in 25 years, retreat unlikely before mid-October

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India sees highest rains in 25 years, retreat unlikely before mid-October Till Sept 30 this year, India received 968.3 millimeters of rainfall as against a normal of 880.6 millimeters Current Affairs  :- In spite of the fact that the southwest rainstorm is as yet proceeding in a few pieces of the nation, the 2019 season formally finished on Monday with 10 percent better than expected precipitation in the nation. This is the most noteworthy over the most recent 25 years, the India Meteorological Department said. The last time the nation got rains more than this year was in 1994, when the real precipitation was 110 percent better than expected. The ordinary precipitation in the nineties was higher than 2019. Consequently, however the expansion was same, the quantum of precipitation could have been more in 1994 than now. Prior to 1994, India got a 10 percent more than normal precipitation in 1990, when the All India genuine precipitation as level of typical precipita...

Chennai to Latur, India struggles for drinking water as reservoirs dry up

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Chennai to Latur, India struggles for drinking water as reservoirs dry up India typically witnesses water scarcity during summer months, but the situation this year is particularly grim in western and southern states Current Affair :-A great many individuals are frantically anticipating past due rainstorm rains as they battle to verify drinking water in the midst of a warmth wave crosswise over India that is quickly evaporating repositories and sending temperatures taking off the nation over. India ordinarily witnesses water shortage during summer months, however the circumstance this year is especially terrible in western and southern states which got not exactly typical precipitation in the 2018 storm season. “I wake ahead of schedule to get water from a well outside the town, as inside three hours the water runs dry,” says Ramchandra Pawar, a rancher from Latur region somewhere in the range of 500 km (300 miles) southeast of Mumbai in the dry season hit western provin...