Drought in Bengaluru: A Shameful Scenario

The water crisis in Bengaluru has been the most challenging aspect that is going to trouble the people of the state.

Despite reasonable rainfall, due to the lack of sufficient lakes to store water and the absence of rainwater harvesting systems in various apartments and gated communities, the situation has become critical now, and drought has become a phenomenon now.

When the people of Bengaluru asked the Deputy Chief Minister of the state, DK Shiva Kumar, to address this issue, he lamented, saying that his borewell has also dried up.

The pandemic of drought is going to cost heavily for getting taken care of water from other towns and villages around.

The concrete jungle of Bengaluru has left the people devoid of water for daily needs, and it proves to be expensive now.

Not only this, the situation is so critical, and here is the data to understand how bad is the crisis:

Bangalore has access to only 1850 million liters per day, but it needs twice as much.
50% of city borewells have dried up.
The cost of tanker has gone up from 400-600 to 800-2000.
The state government has taken over all tanker operations from this month.
There has been 34% less rainfall this season.
Cauvery river has the lowest water levels in 10 years.

Many say that the government officials who give permissions to several buildings in spite of norms to keep space for rainwater harvesting are the real culprits for this present imbroglio. Indeed, it's a shameful scenario.