DAY ZERO WHERE CITY TAPS GO DRY

Have you heard the word day zero Do you know cities need to prepare for water day zero. This is capetown a port city on south africas south west coast. This city is facing day zero. What is day zero. Day zero the date when the city taps would go dry because its reservoirs would become dangerously low on water. In cape town government is implementing rationing of water and people are not allowed to use more than 50 liters of water per day. there are collection points to collect water for 4 million people there are just 200 collection points which means 1 collection point for every 20000 ppl. People nearly spend 4 hours in traffic to collect water from collection points. A new early warning satellite system reveals countries where shrinking reservoirs could lead to the taps completely drying up. An analysis show that at least 200 cities across the world are facing a severe water crisis while 10 metro politan cities among them are fast moving towards day zero- a situation where taps started running down. Mexico City( mexico), Melbourne(Australia), Jakarta, London, Beijing, Istanbul, Tokyo, Bangalore, and the U.S. State of California are among the areas that are fast moving towards day- zero. In india , an expanding population, growing demand for water from agriculture and industry, and poor management of water supplies have sent groundwater to ever lower levels. As far as banglore is concerned, the analysis shows that the total number of extraction wells in the city has shot up from 5000 to 0.45 million in the past 30 years. Recharge of ground water is minimal due to unplanned urbanisation. The city only uses half of its treatment capacity to treat the waste and as a result a substancial amount of waste is dumped into water bodies. Have you ever thought what will happen if our city, town, village go day- zero. You cannot imagine your own life if day zero happens. We ,lazy chef, show you the real life situation of a village which is facing day zero situation from past few years. We show you how life changes, its not just change, how life ruins,disintegrates and is destroyed when you have to fight for the basic element of human life which goes unavailable.