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India blackout leaves 300 million without power

Grid failure left more than 300 million people without power in New Delhi and much of northern India for hours on Monday in the worst blackout for more than a decade, highlighting chronic infrastructure woes holding back Asia’s third-largest economy.

300 million… that’s almost the entire US popluation size.

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India suffers a peak hour power deficit of about 10 percent. It has been made worse this year by a weak monsoon, driving demand from farmers pumping more water from wells.

The impacts of climate change in South Asia, over this century, will be quite large. The effects of a changing climate are not evenly distributed around the globe.