She wakes up early in the morning to make it to a long queue for water.
Every summer is a new battle for these residents.
Is Delhi really going thirsty?
In the early 1950s, the quality of urban water services in Delhi was similar to the best of other major urban centres of Asia.
The situation is so bad that every household in every city in the country has turned into a mini jal board – households build an overhead tank, keep flocks of buckets to store water, get additional pipe fitted to connect the supplies with the tank and install membranes and water purifying systems to make the water drinkable.
Worse, the solutions are not complex, they are operable.
Nearly 63 million people in India do not have access to safe drinking water, and increased pollution of water-bodies and poor storage infrastructure over the years, has created a water deficit which may become unmanageable in the future.
The Asian Development Bank has forecasted that by 2030, India will have a water deficit of 50 per cent.
The UN estimates that global demand for water will exceed supply by 2030, which means many more megacities will be in the same boat as Cape Town.
Back in India, Bangalore could be our first victim.