Hmmmmmm. According to Al Gore, the 'global warming' trend was actually supposed to INCREASE the volume of monsoon rains over the far east, causing sea levels to rise and flooding many fertile deltas and farmlands across India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar, and points south. Now it seems Al may have been misled about his 'facts' again. By the way, this is not the first time India has seen spotty monsoons. It happens fairly often, and in the 1960's was much worse than it is now. Of course, Democrats blamed the bad monsoons back then on the communists taking over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Politicians don't seem to know what is reality and what ids campaign propaganda.

Water shortage like all the other shortages are only for the poor and the powerless. The wealthy have air conditioned homes, swimming pools and an abundance of everything else bought buy an unlimited supply of 'Black Money'.

I would think instead of having the most expensive home in the world in India. The billion dollars would have been better spent on wells.

Straight Speak you are correct. When the southern USA had water shortages a few years back only the rich had green lawns.

Think maybe we might try to :limit immigration,limit land use, limit family size, insist on reproductive responsibility etc?We are headed towards overpopulation like the rest of the world-case in point

gov't mismanagement at its worst.

Opportunities seem to abound to individuals and businesses to reach out and help others all over the world. While food surplus is allowed to be dumped and rot in the sun in one place, children and adults starve to death in others. Where excess rainfall is allowed to flood and runoff wasted, others want for lack of decent water. It is interesting that we face such opposite drastic scenarios. Mankind has the resources to provide for others and use technology to help solve these problems in the long run. The problem is we lack the compassion and exceed in greed in the sufficient numbers to solve these problems. Like some big puzzle on a table laid before us. It seem to be a demonstration to see if enough humans can come together to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, cure the sick and house the homeless. Sadly, those who have so much they will never be able to use it for themselves, are failing the tests to be generous. While those without will die waiting. It isn't a matter of not enough material, food, water, etc. It is a matter of not enough compassion by enough people who have the means to tip the scales. The world does not reward being good. It seems the human soul's ability to reach out and lift up others isn't is too easily swayed by greed