It was predicted that residents of Cape Town will have to face acute scarcity of drinking water towards the middle of April.
Cape Town’s is not an isolated case.
At present about a billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and 2.7 billion more face water scarcity for at least a month in a year.
Added to the problem of wastage of drinking water, the city is also in the news for pollution of its water bodies.
The Bellandur Lake is a case in point.
Many parts of the country are facing problems associated with availability of drinking water.
In the case of India, Day Zero would mean something entirely different from what it means for Cape Town.
What the South African city means by Day Zero is that its residents, who are even now receiving 24×7 domestic water supply, will only have to line up for drinking water.
But in India domestic water supply round the clock is a luxury that isolated parts in some cities enjoy.
And of the cities covered by the survey, only two (Chandigarh and Thiruvananthapuram) received water for more than 12 hours in a day.