2010-05-25 16:08:53.254 GMT By Cherian Thomas, Unni Krishnan and Sophie Leung May 26 (Bloomberg) — A fight breaks out as student Vikas Dagar jostles with dozens of men, women and children to fill buckets from a truck that brings water twice a week to the village of Jharoda Kalan on the outskirts of New Delhi. [...]

From the Roman aqueducts to modern-day pipelines, bulk water transportation hasn’t changed over the years.  Pipelines work well where there is an ongoing need over a long period of time so that the economic cost of construction can be recovered.  However pipelines can be an expensive alternative where there the need is ad-hoc or in [...]