Chennai sources stated that the unprecedented water crisis in Chennai, worst in the last 10 years, has reached tenuous proportions with no signs of immediate relief from Nature. Recently the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) says that with the weakening of the severe cyclonic storm off Gujarat coast, conditions would be created for further advancement into other parts of the country of the southwest monsoon that hit kerala coast a week later this year on June 8. 

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Furthermore as climate experts say the ‘Third World War’ would be over water among nation-states. Presently what North Tamilnadu is now witnessing in June 2019 seems a grim trailer of that frightful scenario; from the traditional row between Karnataka and Tamilnadu over the release of Cauvery waters, the scramble for water within the state has trickled to inter-districts level. Currently in Chennai, the battle for a pot of water is seen from ward-to-ward, street-to-street, particularly in its non-elitist underbelly.

 


Moreover the officials of Metro Water though say that they have been unable to reach water regularly only for 2,484 streets as they are in the interior parts where water tankers can hardly hope to enter. “But we are still making efforts even to reach those unreached so far,” says an official requesting anonymity.


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