RIGHT in the middle of February, when Bengaluru should have been celebrating salubrious weather and enjoying the warm glow of its technological and financial successes, the taps of a third of its population ran dry.
How is it that an emblem of modern India, a city advanced and sophisticated in multiple ways and burgeoning with activity, suddenly finds itself waterless?
Incredibly, that is exactly what has happened in Bengaluru. The city was fine one day and the next day it wasn’t. Just like that and without warning, an estimated 4.5 million residents in the north and east of the city found they didn’t have water to cook, wash their dishes or take a bath. They account for a third of Bengaluru’s population of about 15 million.
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