Chennai Residents Nail Rainwater Harvesting, Collect 1,00,000 Litres Over 3 Hours!. In Chennai, A Community Harvests 25,000 Litres of Rain Water In An Hour. How exactly will water from the Jolarpettai train reach your taps? Citizen Matters. Water crisis hits fire service as firemen made to wait longer to fill tankers. Water-starved, hospitals in critical care in Chennai. Day Zero: when is it, what is it, and how can we avoid it? Retrieved from Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From Running Out of Water. A Megacity Without Water: São Paulo’s Drought. Chennai water crisis: City’s reservoirs run dry. The World’s Cities in 2018: Data Booklet. In the parched City of Chennai, there is no shortage of homegrown solutions as well. Recently, the Cape Town drought in South Africa has paved the way to the development of a solar desalination system, a technology that can be upscaled in other water-stressed areas near coastal waters. The crisis is inspiring unique innovations. This water ferry should support about 1 percent of the city’s 830 MLD water requirement. The authorities have promised to bring water at 10 million liters a day (MLD) by train, from a town 135 miles away, for the next six months. Meanwhile, supply from towns with water to spare is brought to the city in water tank trucks. Even critical emergency facilities, such as hospitals and fire stations, have not been spared from the strict water rationing. Businesses such as hotels and restaurants are shutting down, while some workers from the IT sector are advised to work from home. Īnywhere in Chennai, thousands of residents are seen lining up for hours with their containers for a meager water ration. First coined in Cape Town, day zero is when the piped water supply has completely run out. This disaster came after prolonged droughts almost brought Mexico City, São Paulo, and Cape Town very close to day zero. The coastal city is the first to fall victim to day zero as its four main water reservoirs have gone dry. Home to some 10.5 million residents, the City of Chennai off the coast of Bengal Bay in southeastern India is currently facing its worst water crisis yet, dubbed as Day Zero.