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This clips shows jubilant villagers celebrating, blasting car horns and dancing in the water as a river flows for the first time in 20 years.

Crowds raced to the river and can be heard whooping and cheering with delight as the water floods into the river bed of the drought-prone area.

The baron ground is replaced by the water as the Kalavapalli River starts to fill.

(Image: Dr.Gopal Naik) (Image: Dr.Gopal Naik)

The footage was captured from a bridge above the water in the Anantapuram district in southern India.

It was uploaded to Facebook by Bmd Fayaz and had been viewed 30,000 times.