Private water tanker trucks fill up at a bore well on Chennai’s outskirts. The area was once a lush farming village but has become part of Chennai’s expanding urban periphery. Locals are drilling bore wells to sell their groundwater. It’s more profitable than using the water to irrigate crops.

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Private water tanker trucks fill up at a bore well on Chennai’s outskirts. The area was once a lush farming village but has become part of Chennai’s expanding urban periphery. Locals are drilling bore wells to sell their groundwater. It’s more profitable than using the water to irrigate crops.