15-09-2016 06:00 via theguardian.com

Angry clashes in Karnataka as India's water wars run deep

Bengaluru erupts in violence over water-sharing plans with neighbouring state Tamil Nadu, as country-wide shortages reach crisis levelsScattered tyres, set alight, had already shut the road back into Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) when Javed Parvesh tried to return on Monday, after a morning at the Cauvery river with his son. Angry crowds were now saying they would die for the same waters in which the pair had been rafting. “We will give blood, but not Cauvery,” their banners read.
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