Very little rain, recent scorching temperatures and a late monsoon season are being blamed for the water shortage in India's sixth-largest city, with nearly 5 million residents.
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.Chennai's water supply comes from four reservoirs, all of which are almost completely dry because the monsoon rain that replenishes them has not come on time. Satellite imagery is making very clear just how low their reservoirs are.Lake Puzhal, the city's largest, is the large body of water in the satellite image from Maxar below. On June 15, 2018, it was full of blue water.
— Srini Swaminathan June 17, 2019 Comparing more satellite imagery from Maxar shows just how much the water level has dropped in the last two months. The video and imagery above show's that there's barely any water in Lake Puzhal. But just two months earlier, there was still some water left. The reservoir's water supply dramatically shrank between June 15, 2018 and April 6, 2019. Since then, it's barely even a body of water.
— Paul P. Murphy June 20, 2019 From February to June of this year, more and more of the lake bed turned to dust.With the reservoirs dwindling, Chennai residents are being forced to find water. Richer residents and businesses are having water trucked in from nearby provinces. A man uses a hand-pump to fill a container with drinking water as others wait in line in Chennai, India, on June 17, 2019.
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