Question

Explain the trend in the number of water bodies from 1973 to 2007 of bengluru city​

Answer 1

Answer:

The least that a city with 11-million population and an economy valued at $44.3 billion (approximate gross domestic product) could do is be water-secure.

Bengaluru, lately, has been staring at doomsday predictions with regard to its depleting water sources and its frothing, burning lakes. A BBC report, earlier this month, claimed that the IT city would follow South Africa’s Cape Town and soon run out of drinking water. A more recent assessment by Down To Earth, a publication of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), echoed that the number of water bodies in the city has reduced by 79% in the past four decades due to unplanned urbanisation and encroachment. Simultaneously, builtup area has increased from 8% in 1973 to 77% presently.