India: Bengaluru Is a Window into the Water Wars of the Future

Oct 11, 2018 | Georgina Drew, Amalendu Jyotishi, and Deepika M. G., Quartz
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Bengaluru is home to some ten million people. It might also be the next city to experience “day zero”: when it runs out of ground water entirely. But in settlements just outside the city centre, people already live without municipal water supplies. Our research found that families—largely women—must piece together drinking, cooking and washing water through a mixture of limited tap supply, communally bought canned water, and “water ATMs.” It takes enormous time, energy, and money to negotiate these water markets. Bengaluru offers a glimpse of a possible future, as more cities around the world approach “day zero.”