BENGALURU, India — Bhavani Mani Muthuvel and her family of nine have around five 20-liter buckets worth of water for the week for cooking, cleaning and household chores. A resident of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of the lavish headquarters of multiple global software companies in Bengaluru’s Whitefield neighborhood, Muthuvel is normally reliant on piped water, sourced …
Rashid Khan, 60, remembers the cold winter night of December 2, 1984, vividly. People began to shout, “Gas nikal gayi he.” Outside his current house in Devaki Nagar, about one km from the chemical company Union Carbide India Limited factory premises, Mr. Khan is now worried about another threat: the groundwater that he and the people in the densely populated …
