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Checking water level

Checking water level

August 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM
 
Agra police officials are seen on a boat as they inspect the water level of the Yamuna river against the backdrop of the Taj Mahal monument in Agra yesterday. The officials inspected the water level ahead of a planned release of water from a Haryana dam into the Yamuna. The strength of the annual June-September downpour is vital to hundreds of millions of farmers and to the growth of Asia’s third largest economy which gets 80% of its annual rainfall during the monsoon.

 

August 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM