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Then a 900-year drought emptied its urban areas and sent its population back to a simpler, poorer village life on the plains of the Ganges...
Tech professionals are leaving Indias IT hub of Bengaluru amid an intensifying drought that has gripped the city as it sweats through another torrid pre-monsoon season, the Deccan Herald reported this month..
In neighboring Kerala, which catches much of the monsoon rainfall before it reaches inland stretches of Bengalurus Karnataka state, a minister has even written to Bengalurus companies, suggesting they relocate because water is not an issue at all in his state, the Times of India reported...
The southern states of Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana and Tamil Nadu account for barely more than 15% of Indias population, but they generate about a quarter of gross domestic product thanks to the strong performance of their technology and manufacturing sectors..
Much of that electricity goes back into agriculture: as well as sucking up groundwater, Indias millions of grid-connected electric pumps put further stress on the power system, accounting for about a fifth of electricity consumption...
