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Indian cities, including Bengaluru, are facing grave water risk due to poor water management, water-illiterate residents, contaminated supplies, leaky distribution networks, and extensive urbanization. The crisis is not a resource scarcity but a combination of bad water management, water-illiterate residents, and unplanned urbanization.
Experts say while the Karnataka Water Policy for effective management of water was brought in and approved by the state cabinet in 2022, its implementation still appears to be a distant dream.