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Cities in Rajasthan can get mineral water at just Rs 3 a litre, here's how

By selling natural mineral water at a nominal cost of Rs 3 per litre for a population of about 3.5 million people, Jaipur could earn a revenue of over Rs 10 billion per year

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Vikram Soni and Aditi Veena | The Wire
All citizens of cities in Rajasthan have access to natural mineral water like Himalayan or Evian for Rs 3 a litre. Fact or fiction?

What is mineral water? Forested hills like the Aravalli are the result of billions of years of evolution. Such a forest has a layer of humus on the ground that sits on old rock formations full of cracked pathways. When it rains on this forest, the water percolates into the ground, where it picks up minerals and nutrients from the forest floor, seeps through these crevices in the rock and finds its way to the bottom to