2019 Chennai water crisis

The 2019 Chennai water crisis was a water crisis occurring in India, most notably in the coastal city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.[1] On 19 June 2019, Chennai city officials declared that "Day Zero", or the day when almost no water is left, had been reached, as all the four main reservoirs supplying water to the city had run dry.[2][3] Two years of deficient monsoon rainfall, particularly in late 2017 and throughout much of 2018 had led to this crisis.[4]

Because tap water has stopped running, some families have been relying on alternative water sources such as distant, unreliable public water pumps, and costly private water tankers.[5]

  1. ^ Nagarajan, Ganesh; Megson, Jody; Wu, Jin (3 February 2021). "How One of the World's Wettest Major Cities Ran Out of Water". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. ^ Murphy, Paul P.; Mezzofiore, Gianluca (20 June 2019). "Chennai, India, is almost out of water. Satellite images show its nearly bone-dry reservoirs". CNN. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  3. ^ Varadhan, Sudarshan (20 June 2019). "Hotels, companies cut back on water use as taps run dry in Chennai". Business Standard India. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  4. ^ India Today Web Desk (20 June 2019). "Rain respite for parched Chennai, IMD predicts moderate showers for next 6 days". India Today. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  5. ^ Masih, Niha; Slater, Joanna (28 June 2019). "As a major Indian city runs out of water, 9 million people pray for rain". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 June 2019.