Water crisis in India leads to reduced glass size in restaurants and offices

The serious lack of water affecting the city of Bangalore is changing the routine of what is known as ‘Silicon Valley‘ of the Indiawith restaurants that reduce their customers’ glasses to save and offices that call to work from home, to those forced to go to shopping centers to go to the bathroom.

“We are paying almost twice as much as we used to pay initially” By el water delivered in private tanker truckss, the Director of the National Restaurant Association of the Bengali region, Chethan Hegde, told EFE this Friday.

If before a restaurant paid on average between 600 to 700 rupees (between 6.65 and 7.76 euros) to supply water, he lamented, now they pay almost 2,000 rupees (22.16 euros).

“We are facing a great crisis”Hedge noted, before expressing his desire to dig his own well to ensure access to water. An impossible dream, in the absence of permits.

“We have to serve our customers and that for us does not mean increasing menu prices.”said Hegde, while revealing that only the way of serving water had changed in order to generate less waste, going from 300 milliliter glasses to 180 glasses.

The shortage in this southern city, which would need between 150 and 200 million additional liters each day, is caused by the weak southwest monsoon rains that failed to replenish the depleted groundwater and reservoirs of the Cauvery River basin, in addition to having led to the drought of a large part of the capital’s wells.

In the face of the crisis, The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) decided to reduce water supply by 20% to large consumers in the capital of Karnataka, which include companies, universities, hospitals, railways and airports.

The reduction began this Friday, forcing, according to the Delhi television network NDTV, thousands of residents to work from home at the request of the companies themselves, and even to use the bathrooms in shopping centers and gyms.

The authorities have also prohibited washing cars with water and have called on city residents to shower at least every other day.