No Drips, No Drops: A City Of 10 Million Is Running Out Of Water
In Chennai, India's sixth largest city, the reservoirs are literally drying up. How are the citizens — and the government — responding?
In India's sixth largest city, lines for water snake around city blocks, restaurants are turning away customers and a man was killed in a brawl over water. Chennai, population almost 10 million, is nearly out of water.
In much of India, municipal water, drawn from reservoirs or ground water, typically runs only for a couple of hours each day. That's the norm year-round. The affluent fill tanks on their roofs; the poor fill jerrycans and buckets.
But in Chennai this summer, the water is barely flowing at all. The government has dispatched
