Severe water shortage afflicts Chennai, India’s fourth-largest metro area - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/25/watr-j25.html
Severe water shortage afflicts Chennai, India’s fourth-largest metro area
By Arun Kumar
25 June 2019
A severe water crisis is afflicting Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and India’s fourth most populous metropolitan area. Residents have been forced to join overnight queues to access small amounts of water. Those hardest hit are the working class and other poor families.
–—
“Water has been made a commodity for profit”—Chennai residents speak out on city’s water crisis - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/25/chen-j25.html
“Water has been made a commodity for profit”—Chennai residents speak out on city’s water crisis
By a WSWS Reporting Team
25 June 2019
World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke with workers and other impoverished residents of the Viyasarpadi and Velachery districts of Chennai about the severe water crisis afflicting India’s fourth largest metropolitan area.
Voicing anger and outrage, the residents blamed bourgeois politicians from all the major parties at both central and state levels for the water crisis.