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Cleaning up Coimbatore's water act

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Aparna Ganesan
December 15, 2022

Like many Indian cities, Coimbatore is worried about water. Local rivers are vanishing as droughts increase and water tables drop. One man who set out to save local water bodies found surprising strength in numbers.

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