Reporter Peter Aronson knows first-hand what it's like to cope with a limited water supply. He lives in the Himalayas of northern India. While that region gets a lot of rain — nearly a hundred inches a year — it falls mostly during the three-month monsoon season. The other nine months of the year there's a chronic water shortage.

As Peter tells us in this Reporter's Notebook, people react to this with both greed and generosity.

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