The hardship that they faced was death cancer
A severe water crisis looms over India. ... A shortage of water will not only deprive millions of their means of earning a living but also it will result in severe foodgrain shortages, which would in turn trigger spikes in food prices, and also deepen India's problems of hunger and malnutrition.
<span>Colonists used the natural resources to make their living. Some grew crops, cut lumber of caught fish. Others used those resources to make products.
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