'Bengaluru water crisis to worsen if there is no...’: Here's how the city is dealing with half-bucket baths

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₹500 to ₹2,000 for a tanker have been addressing the residents daily needs. Following a series of emergency meetings on Tuesday, March 5, another decision was taken that involved tankers owned by the Karnataka Milk Federation to be cleaned, and deployed to supply water in the city.

Moreover, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday, announced a series of decisions that included decisions about taluk-level control rooms, helpline numbers, emergency task forces headed by local legislators. Among the 236 taluks in the state of Karnataka, 223 have been drought-hit, with 219 severely affected.

An official informed that dry spell affected water supply both from the Cauvery, and borewells that are two of Bengaluru’s principal sources of water. “The crisis may worsen if there is no good rain in the coming days as already close to half the borewells have dried up," HT quoted another official as saying.

A hospitality sector executive, Dipali Sikand who lives in Koramangala and has been paying increasingly high rates for private water tankers said, “Since the BWSSB water supply is erratic now, I buy water every other day. I have to make a separate budget for water.