India, March 18 -- Amid the institutional & personal attempts to save water in Bengaluru, an obvious culprit is being ignored

Bengaluru, India's third most populated city, is grappling with an unprecedented water crisis. The 'garden city of India' once had multiple lakes, thanks to the visionary Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda and the successors of his idea to make a town with artificial tanks and lakes.

In the 1960s, there were over 280 lakes in the city, and only a handful of them exist today. Most were encroached upon as the city expanded rapidly since the Information Technology (IT) boom of the early 1980s.

Today, the city's groundwater is being exploited limitlessly as the Cauvery and Arkavathi rivers together cannot provide enough water t...