Major crisis in the city
There is an extreme water crisis headed for Bangalore and the authorities are literally pushing us further towards this impending doom.
Bangalore is situated at a height of 920m above mean sea level, with no perennial rivers flowing through the city and hundreds of miles away from either easy coast or west coast.
In order to get ground water here, you have to dig borewells 1-1.5kms depth. Bangalore used to be dependent on cauvery water supply for all its needs. Now with extreme level of urbanisation in this part, the water crisis is worsening. What is more alarming is the fact that...even after knowing about such an impending crisis, the authorities here are leasing more and more land to companies. Just recently 140acres of land was given to Applied Materials company. One company implies 20-30 new pgs coming in. On top of that new flats and housing complexes to house the senior level management. Why are the authorities allowing this?
One more big company in Bangalore implies huge water shortage in the next few summers. The government should stop allowing companies to come here anymore. If this continues then in addition to the traffic we will have an unprecedented water crisis in the city.
Can we do something about this?