BANKA: The village of Banka in Azerbaijan should have plentiful supplies of water as it lies beside one of the country’s mightiest rivers, the Kura. We don’t get water in time,” said farmer Maryam Hasanova, as she waited for a truck to deliver water. Residents in two southern regions have suffered acute water shortages for months, and people like Hasanova — who have smallholdings with crops and cattle — have been particularly affected. “We’re in a terrible state.”A communal water tank stands in the village street of one-story houses waiting to be filled by deliveries from a truck. But Hasanova complained that the amount of water delivered by the authorities was far less than the villagers’ real needs.

Source: Manila Times July 30, 2020 16:41 UTC