sample of a leading report about "Water crisis in a city"
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the capital city of West Bengal, is the most important city in eastern India. The core Kolkata city is spread over around 200 square kilometres and has a population of 4.5 million people. The greater urban conglomeration includes 41 other cities and hosts nearly 15 million, making it the third largest city area in India. It is has also been one of the most water-rich cities of India.
According to Dhrubojyoti Ghosh, former chief environment officer of the state environment department now an expert with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Kolkata is blessed ecologically because it has, “the Ganga flowing beside its western end, traditionally huge groundwater reserve and wide wetlands area in its eastern fringe which naturally treats its waste water and turns that as raw water for fishery and agriculture.” Despite these advantages the city is now increasingly running into trouble