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Is Bengaluru the next Cape Town?

Photo Courtesy: livemint It was with much ease that we read the news about Day Zero in Cape Town, where the local government will shut down water connections for homes and business. We thought that this is somewhere far away from us and we are safe. But, in a recent list put forward by the BBC where it has listed Bengaluru in the second position after Sao Paulo in Australia in the “11 cities most likely to run out of drinking water”. This sounds alarming, right? At a time when the Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation, has set ... Read more