A woman carries home pots filled with potable water colꦉlected from a private tanker in Bengaluru. Bengaluru is witnessing an unusually hot February and March, and in the last few years, it’s received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change.
S. Prasad, who lives with his wife and two children in a housing society, is reflected in the mirro🀅r as he shows the tap with no running water inside his apartment, in Bengaluru.
Residents of Ambedkar Nagar, a low💛-income settlement in the shadows of global software companies in Whitefield neighborhood, collect potable water from a private tanker in Bengaluru.
Water leaks from a private tanker en route to deliver the pꦗotable water to customers of a residential area in Bengaluru.
Barrels filled with water are covered wit𓄧h blankets to prevent them from the heat in a low-income settleme🤪nt of Whitefield neighborhood, in Bengaluru.
Residents of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of global sof♉tware companies in Whitefield neighborhood, collect potable water from a private tanker🌳 in Bengaluru.
High-rise residential buildings housing thousands of people facing water crisis stand in Whitefield ne🥂igh🍷borhood of Bengaluru.
Potable water is loaded into a private water tanker from a temporary pond created to stꦜore groundwater later to be sold at high costs to offices and apartments, in Bengaluru.
Laborers work to drill a borewellཧ for groundwater in Bengaluru. Groundwater, relied on by over a third of the city's 13 million-strong population, is fast running out.
A resident of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of global software companies in Whi𝓰tefield neighborhood, walks past the empty water cans outside her house in Bengaluru.
A m🥀otoriಞst rides with his family past the stacked empty drinking water cans to be transported for refilling in Bengaluru.