Bengaluru Is Not Alone, Other Indian Cities Too Could Soon Face Water Crisis
Karnataka's capital Bengaluru has been making headlines for some time due to an acute water shortage in the city.
The IT hub, often referred to as India's Silicon Valley has been brought to its knees in the past few weeks due to the water crisis.
What is happening in Bengaluru
The water crisis in Bengaluru is not anything new and the city has been experiencing disruptions almost every summer.
However, things escalated to a whole new level this year due to the deficit rains Karnataka received in the monsoon, which resulted in water bodies drying up earlier than expected.
Indian cities running out of water
And Bengaluru is not alone when it comes to facing water shortage, in the near future.
In fact most of India's big cities are on the verge of running out of water.
In 2019 a report by the NITI Ayog had said that 40 percent of India¡¯s population will have no access to drinking water by 2030.
Apart from Bengaluru, cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bathinda, Lucknow, Chennai and more are also facing water crisis.
Cities facing water risk by 2050
A 2020 report by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) had identified 30 Indian cities that could face acute water risk by 2050.
This include Delhi, Jaipur, Indore, Amritsar, Pune, Srinagar, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kozhikode and Vishakhapatnam.
Groundwater depletion in India?
A 2023 United Nations report had said that some areas in the Indo-Gangetic basin in India have already passed the groundwater depletion tipping point and its entire northwestern region is predicted to experience critically low groundwater availability by 2025.
The report highlights that the world is approaching six environmental tipping points: accelerating extinctions, groundwater depletion, mountain glacier melting, space debris, unbearable heat and an uninsurable future.
Environmental tipping points are critical thresholds in the Earth's systems, beyond which abrupt and often irreversible changes occur, leading to profound and sometimes catastrophic shifts in ecosystems, climate patterns and the overall environment.
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