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and cutting down their ride to school and back every day. i'm sumi so much going to thank you so much for joining us on dia news asia today. well we start with the heat wave that continues to batter india extreme temperatures across the north and the east of the country have caused hundreds of deaths in the south the searing hot spell has led to severe water shortages the situation has reached a crisis point in chennai this is india 6th biggest city chennai's 4 main water reservoirs have dried up take a look at the satellite image from one year ago you can see the water levels there and this is what it looks like now residents are desperate for rain but monsoon season and that will not it isn't supposed to come until late in the fall locals are now blending authorities for failing to recognize the shortage and deal with it

early on. an almost bone dry this reservoir is done to its last one percent of water. a shepherd has led his animals to the last few drops. and this is what red his lake should look like. but now an acute drought has crippled water supply after months of high temperatures and extreme water scarcity expects say the situation is grave. for loss to us there's a deficit in the rainfall that is one thing. the 2nd thing is. chile always go through the fight through

a firefight between us we have the cycle where rainfall actually freeness the city . out of the city turned off to his son family's water more than 40 days ago since then they've had to buy drinking water. they still get enough from the top thanks to their underground tanks. she may be recruited here. the systems collect and create rainwater during the monsoon season this way they can survive dry spells but know their reserves are running out. of facts ok every month. and the negativity last month for what happened to my dogs ok i did not get the one a drop of water so that is one of the government has not stood up towards the responsibilities. after chennai shut off its water supply the city turned to sending tanker trucks into desperate villages to fill it top grown water wells.

tanker drivers also deliver waters from other regions throughout the country. people are suffering a lot from the scarcity and heavy demand for water we've had more than 500 books to deliver water. only the neighborhoods are provided with free water though not every day deliveries often come with drama the mood among the locals. it's not long before the situation escalates. let's. have an hour of we get water through that pump but it is sewage water and has a foul smell they will tell us to use that water for daily needs at the other end of the same street people get water delivered by water tanks every day but we don't get it residents here have had to pay water tax for the past 2 years now they're

demanding clean water supplies to fill up their own time. and recent times chennai has become one of india's key industrial engines in the building boom the city paved over not troll water sources the state supreme court has told tonight to stop this but little has been done. several rivers flow through chennai one is being widened to create another lane for river traffic the water quality is miserable there forever like many here more like open sewers. for the garment of talking about early or e.u. thing go through it treating it to a who're acceptable standard with can we with wayne and the 3 for that they're trying to eliminate industry at the meeting with a pure fresh water. outside chennai the result of industry appetite for fresh water is laid bare the water table has fallen dramatically on top of that the

farmers grow rice and sugar cane both devour water the women say their husbands are forced to seek walk in the cities to support their families. last a lot and if it had rained it would have been better for the crops and for us but there is no water even to drink the situation's disastrous. back at the red hills lake reservoir drug conditions make renovations easier to upgrade since it was built in 1010 by british engineers the region has long struggled with periods of drought the state government plans to invest 33000000 euros in the water supply but is holding out for the monsoon only my old range of forecast not nearly enough to quench the thirst. and we can

get the latest on the story to get these british vanity is standing by in delhi monitoring the situation in chennai for us good to see you we heard the accusation in our report from locals that authorities did not do enough to get ahead of the situation is that a fair accusation heiser mean to a great extent yes i would say and that's what a number of experts are saying as well they must bear in mind that chennai which is a couple of the state of time allowed to a longer time and not to get rains from what's called the northeast monsoons of these happened between the months of october and december now as far back as generally it became clear that these monsoons were a failure in many ways which is to say that the state of time another one heads by extension did not get the amount of rainfall that was expected this very important to feel the reza was that feeds you saw a glimpse of those reza was which are completely dried up in that report that you just said now the state government knew about this in january they did a bit of water rationing but that's about it so you basically had

a situation in which you're now i was heading to an acute water shortage in the summer months and a state government that really wasn't prepared but beyond this to me what is really important to look at is beyond the current administration of the current government it is literally been a failure of successive governments and successive administrations in chennai to stop the massive spread of obama's original genocide is a fairly a green city it has cleared of us it has 4 reza was it has 5 wetlands 6 forests most of these online polluted and not usable a lot of them have dried up it's literally been poor poor old water management to blame for the successive year as a lot of this open his infamous road that i mention has been happening on the banks of the river as it has been happening on lake beds so a lot of these waters sources have been depleted without me or to me to replace them. so the situation is bad bereishis saying and it looks like it's only going to get worse what can be done at this point other than waiting for rain

while at the moment her nose doing what it can do best which is look at short term solutions in which they're trying to bulk up the resources that are available to the city and by that i mean looking at the 3 major beside an assertion that provide water to the city they're working at nearly maximum capacity to achieve maximum efficiency other than that the number of tankers that are being made available in the city has gone up there are proposals that are talks to bring in piped water from more than 200 kilometers away and there is also talk of sending in water through 3 wagons into the city that's the short term nature offer but of course that throws open the longer term question as to what is jenna's long term strategy to manage the situation in the future and that is where exports are coarsening that things like rain water harvesting need to be implemented in form so that the city has water as it was to tide over these kinds of periods and there is also an appeal being made to the city's residents to perhaps change their water consumption habits

because clearly gen-y. doesn't have so much water that it can be could be wished or call upon when needed . reporting in delhi for us thank you very much. now it's a ritual many of us are familiar with the experience of getting up in the morning and going to school for some children the path to the classroom is more difficult than others in the end mark more than half of the country's children live in poverty according to the united nations children's agency unicef and a half of 17 year olds enter adulthood with little or no education access to schooling is part of the problem in areas where there is no public transport and schools are thin on the ground a new initiative is addressing just that problem take a look. biking to beat the school bell. not long ago these kids had to walk to classes for some a journey of up to 2 hours now with pedal power it takes only minutes.

an initiative called less walk to the recycle bikes students who live more than 2 kilometers from school are 1st in line to get a life changing ride. when set up less work to give kids easier access to education. bikes can help students get to school in just 50 minutes rather than one hour by food they won't miss class and they'll be better focused on their education so hopefully won't drop out. of foundered less work after a string of bike sharing companies pulled out of singapore malaysia thousands of parcels behind so 10 started shipping them to me and ma. and now local kids like this are reaping the benefits. if i don't suppose that i have more time to study

and play with friends when i let them know i won't need to get up so early and walk for 2 hours. i don't know that i'd like to. see i never have a bike i won't be so tired from all the walking to manhattan. if all goes to plan less work hopes to hand out $100000.00 bikes over the next 5 years giving a rolling start to these kids' future all right that's it for now be sure to check out our other stories on w dot com slash asia or on facebook and twitter. now today is our world today so we'll leave you with a massive session in the indian city of brunch with prime minister narendra modi leading the bending and stretching 30000 yelled at those yes will see you next time .

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