Bengaluru, London, Tokyo among cities that would soon run out of water!
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Bengaluru has been listed at number two in the list carrying name of eleven cities that would soon run out of the water
As the Cape Town city is at the edge of becoming a first modern city to run out of the water, India's It hub and Karnataka's Bengaluru is also facing similar circumstances.
India's IT hub, Bengaluru has been listedat number two in the list carrying cities name that would soon run out of the water.
Surprisingly the city that was also in the list was London; despite the recent heavy rains in January.
In 2017 many reports claimed that Bengaluru faced the worst drought in past 40 years in 2017.
Water in the Bengaluru city comes fromnumber of sources and 80% of that supply is fulfilled by Cauvery river; report says that the place where Cauvery river originates has gone dry.
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Other two main sources Krishna Sagar Dam and the Arkavathi has also gone dry.
According to reports as the sewage system need an urgent which leads to the loss of over half of the drinking water to waste.
Some of the cause of water shortage is the sewage system of the city which needs urgent expand.
Though the city is known for its lakes and rivers and not a single river is suitable to use for drinking or bathing purpose.
The number of healthy existing lakes has been reducing to 17 which used to be 51 in 1985.
The city that is at number one is Brazil's capital, Sao Paulo.
According to reports in 2017 about 850 cities of Brazil are suffering from water scarcity including Sao Paulo which is also in the list of most polluted cities in the world.
Beijing who is also suffering from pollution problem was at number three in the list.
Two-thirds of the water supply comes from groundwater, one third from surface water. Average rainfall has substantially declined since the 1950s. Furthermore, one of the two main rivers supplying the city, the Yongding River, had to be abandoned as a source of drinking water because of pollution.
The full list of cities that would soon run out of the water.
1. Sao Paulo, Brazil
2. Banglore, India
3. Beijing, China
4. Cairo, Egypt
5. Jakarta, Indonesia
6. Moscow, Russia
7. Istanbul, Turkey
8. Mexico, United States
9. London, United Kingdom
10. Tokyo, Japan
11. Miami, United States
South Africa's Cape Town has been hit by a severe droughtdue to climate change and is heading towards 'day zero', the day when the water in the dams reaches 13.5 per cent of the capacity which currently three-quarter empty, which probably will fall in April.