330 million without water

Desperate times: Villagers collecting water from an almost dried up well at Thackerchi wadi on the outskirts of Mumbai. — EPA

New Delhi: India is scrambling to get water to drought-hit parts of the country as a sweltering heatwave adds to the misery.

Some 330 million people in 256 of the nation’s 664 districts have been affected, the government told the Supreme Court last week.