WATER has suddenly appeared in the middle of an arid part of north-west
India, as a result of last month’s devastating earthquake in Gujarat. As many as
20,000 people may have died in the earthquake, which registered 6.9 on the
Richter scale.
The water is the one small ray of hope to have come out of the devastation.
The new watercourses appeared after the earthquake liquefied the clay and sand
in ancient river beds. Underground water quickly rose to the surface to flood
the channels.
The region is regularly convulsed by earthquakes. “The Indian plate is
colliding with the…
