Baramulla, June 20 -- A crippling water crisis has engulfed vast swathes of North Kashmir, leaving thousands of residents in Baramulla, Bandipora, and Kupwara districts struggling for every drop as temperatures soar and water taps run dry.
Protests have erupted across multiple villages with furious locals accusing the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department of criminal negligence and repeated failures to complete critical water supply schemes.
With the region reeling under an intense heatwave, the acute drinking water shortage has forced residents to fetch water from unsafe sources such as the Jhelum River, canals, and open streams-many of which are heavily polluted and breeding grounds for disease.
In Pattan area of Baramulla distric...