Bengaluru water crisis continues as residents struggle for every drop

Bengaluru: The water crisis in Bengaluru has deepened to the point where people are cutting down use of water for non-drinking purposes taking only five showers a month, and buying rather than cooking food, NDTV reported.

Recycling methods are becoming more common as the parched city ’s residents struggle for every drop.

However, most residents are still depending on water tankers for daily supply.

‘We need four tankers daily. We are getting only one or two. We are facing huge problems over the past two-three months,’ one resident was quoted as saying.

Residents acknowledged that rates for water tanks have come down after the city administration’s order.

‘The rates have stabilised, but the problem remains huge. We are not getting tankers on time because of high demand,’ a resident reportedly said.

Another resident said though the government has reduced the prices for water, tankers are not coming, adding ‘Even if they come, the water is not sufficient. I don't know when this will get resolved and when we will get back to normal life.’

Meanwhile, people made no bones about highlighting successive governments’ failure in implementing development projects with one resident saying that ‘They did not consider the well-being of people’, adding ‘we need to work on the groundwater level’.

The city gets water from two sources: Cauvery and groundwater; however, mounting crisis force people to turn to recycled water processed by sewage treatment plans.

Where the city needs 2,600-2,800 million litres of water daily the supply meets only half of it, causing struggle.