India, April 9 -- However, the issue of water crisis is missing in the ongoing Lok Sabha election campaign

Even as summer is yet to peak across the country, over 40 rivers in India's second most populous state have already dried, according to officials of the Bihar Water Resources Department (WRD).

The volume of water in other rivers has been decreasing fast. The precious liquid is visible only in certain parts of some of the state's big rivers, they added.

Water is also vanishing from other sources in the state such as reservoirs and canals. Groundwater levels are also dipping.

A senior official of WRD said on April 8 that most reservoirs in Bihar are facing water shortages. "Some reservoirs which have dried up, have reached dead sto...