India's Sixth Biggest City Is On The Verge Of Running Out Of Water

CNN: India's sixth biggest city is almost entirely out of water

The floor of the Chembarambakkam reservoir is cracked open, dry and sun-baked. About 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) away, in Chennai, India's sixth largest city, millions of people are running out of water.

Chembarambakkam and the three other reservoirs that have traditionally supplied Chennai are nearly all dry, leaving the city suffering from an acute water shortage, said Jayaram Venkatesan, an activist in the city.

Due to an inability to collect sufficient rain water combined with low groundwater levels, the Tamil Nadu state government has been struggling to provide water to residents.

With the reservoirs dry, water is being brought directly into Chennai neighborhoods in trucks. Every day, hundreds of thousands of residents have no choice but to stand in line for hours in soaring summer temperatures, filling dozens of cans and plastic containers.
Indian residents stand around with plastic pots filled with drinking water at a distribution point in Chennai on June 19, 2019.

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Update #1: Workers told to shower less, hotels ration water for guests as reservoirs in India’s Chennai city dry up (SCMP/Reuters)
Update #2: Chennai in crisis as authorities blamed for dire water shortage (The Guardian)

WNU Editor: For as long as I can remember, when it is summertime in India you have nothing but heat, low water supplies at the beginning of the season, and everyone waiting for the monsoon season to kick in. But India has changed. There are too many people and too few resources to take care of them, and crisis like this one are only going to intensify. On a side note, the prediction is that India will be the most populous state in the world by 2100 .... World Population To Reach 10.9 Billion By 2100 (June 17, 2019). It is not going to happen if there is no water.