{"id":67206,"date":"2024-04-05T06:53:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67206"},"modified":"2024-04-05T06:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:53:32","slug":"indias-most-innovative-cities-including-bengaluru-run-out-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67206","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s most innovative cities including Bengaluru run out of water"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"stryhdtp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/industry\/news\/india-s-most-innovative-cities-including-bengaluru-run-out-of-water-124040100050_1.html\">India&#8217;s most innovative cities including Bengaluru run out of water<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"strydsc\"><strong>Tech professionals are leaving India&#8217;s IT hub of Bengaluru amid an intensifying drought that has gripped the city as it sweats through another torrid pre-monsoon season<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-image \">\n<div class=\"position-relative\"><i class=\"img-sizer\"><\/i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 lazy-img\" title=\"water\" src=\"https:\/\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/_media\/bs\/img\/article\/2024-04\/01\/full\/1711936363-4699.jpg?im=FitAndFill=(826,465)\" alt=\"water\" width=\"826\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"strlabel\">A thirsty growth engine | Photo: Bloomberg<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<div>At the time Egypt\u2019s pyramids were being constructed, one of the cradles of global civilization grew up in the Indus Valley around the borders of Pakistan and India. Its grid-planned cities produced sewerage networks, delicate artworks and an undeciphered writing system. Then a 900-year drought emptied its urban areas and sent its population back to a simpler, poorer village life on the plains of the Ganges.\n<\/div>\n<div>Something grimly similar is happening right now.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"whtsclick\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<div>Tech professionals are leaving India\u2019s IT hub of Bengaluru amid an intensifying drought that has gripped the city as it sweats through another torrid pre-monsoon season, the Deccan Herald reported this month. More than half of the wells the city depends on for groundwater have dried up after failed rains last year, leaving businesses and citizens dependent on trucked-in water tankers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In neighbouring\u00a0Kerala, which catches much of the monsoon rainfall before it reaches inland stretches of Bengaluru\u2019s Karnataka state, a minister has even written to Bengaluru\u2019s companies, suggesting they relocate because \u201cwater is not an issue at all\u201d in his state, the Times of India reported.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That seems in poor taste in southern India, where fights over the distribution of river flows between parched states have gone on for decades. He\u2019s not wrong, though. Indeed, these pressures are only going to grow as populations rise and climate change makes the cycles of drought and monsoon more pronounced.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s most innovative cities including Bengaluru run out of water Tech professionals are leaving India&#8217;s IT hub of Bengaluru amid an intensifying drought that has gripped the city as it sweats through another torrid pre-monsoon season A thirsty growth engine | Photo: Bloomberg At the time Egypt\u2019s pyramids were being constructed, one of the cradles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[5752,34231,33200,422,6613,866,16547],"class_list":["post-67206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-bloomberg-news","tag-business-standard","tag-david-fickling","tag-india","tag-industry","tag-water","tag-water-shortages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67207,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67206\/revisions\/67207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}