Leonardo Dicaprio concerned about Chennai's Water Crisis!

PUBLISHED DATE : 26/Jun/2019

Leonardo Dicaprio concerned about Chennai's Water Crisis!

In one of the worst hits of climate change, Chennai one of India's Southern capital cities is undergoing a dry spell in its water supply while recording a temperature as horrid as 40 degree Celsius. The Indian Meteorological Department forecasts mild downpours for the next few days, which might help bring down the city's temperature but not much in its ongoing water crisis. 

 

While the situation has come as a huge wake-up call to both the state government and the city of 10 million, Hollywood actor cum environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio has expressed his concerns over the situation by sharing an article by BBC.

 

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#Regram #RG @bbcnews: "Only rain can save Chennai from this situation." A well completely empty, and a city without water. The southern Indian city of Chennai is in crisis, after the four main water reservoirs ran completely dry. The acute water shortage has forced the city to scramble for urgent solutions and residents have to stand in line for hours to get water from government tanks. As the water levels depleted, hotels and restaurants started to shut down temporarily, and the air con was turned off in the city's metro. Officials in the city continue to try and find alternative sources of water - but the community continue to pray for rain. Tap the link in our bio to read more about Chennai's water crisis. (📸 Getty Images) #chennai #watercrisis #india #bbcnews

A post shared by Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) on Jun 25, 2019 at 1:42pm PDT


The article indicates that the only way to save Tamil Nadu's capital city is by improving the groundwater levels and registers the water department's fear of the city being pushed to 'destruction mode' if the rains fail. 

 

Concern from climate change activists like Dicaprio comes as no surprise, for Chennai has showed drastic levels of diminishing water reservoirs within a gap of one year.

 

 

While experts believe that ensuring a functioning rainwater-harvesting structure could help in the long haul, as Dicaprio says in his climate change documentary Ice On Fire“We are the first generation to see the advance of climate disruption, and the last with a chance to fix it,”  

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