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India’s Silicon Valley Is Going Dry?

Today, I write about how the world’s fastest-growing tech hub is running out of water, how the locals are dealing with it, and how it can affect the world.

The IT sector of Bengaluru (also called Bangalore) generates over $50 billion every year. For 2024, the government of Karnataka was planning the “Brand Bengaluru” campaign to attract more investors but now the government and people of Bengaluru are dealing with something much bigger and grave.

Bengaluru is dealing with a water crisis. The shortage is new and half-unexpected. In modern times, Bengaluru, a bustling melting pot of cultures, has never experienced a water shortage. Unmanaged construction, poor rainfall, and overpopulation have combined into a mammoth problem.

Of 13,900 public borewells in the city, 6,900 have gone dry. Most of the IT corridors that were dependent on borewell water are going through tough times. Tech employees living in apartments, houses, and paying guest facilities have borne the brunt.

One of the major water sources is the KRS dam, with a full capacity of 49,452 million cubic feet. On 28th March, the storage capacity stood at 13,807 million cubic feet. Last year on the same day, it was 21,764 million cubic feet.

What is the government doing?

The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has taken a slew of measures to prevent the misuse of water. These include banning the use of potable water for washing vehicles and gardening, installing flow restrictors or aerators at commercial establishments, taking over all the water tankers, and making permission mandatory for digging borewells.

What are the people doing?

In some areas, the crisis is too severe. Employees from such places are taking the option to work from home from their native places. In some places, the situation is normal. You won’t even realize there is a water shortage.

This also indicates how poorly managed Bengaluru is in terms of its infrastructure. The city is unable to transport water from its water-rich areas to the water-scarce areas efficiently.

How does this affect the world?

The impact cannot be felt outside Bengaluru right now. Half of the city is doing alright. Some tech offices have switched to work from home but the economic and professional output of the IT industry has not been significantly affected yet.

But, if it does not rain in the coming months, there will be significant ripples. Hundreds, if not thousands of companies, around the world outsource their work to Bengaluru. From customer support to project management to infrastructure stability, Bengaluru handles it all.

If the city goes into an informal shutdown with involuntary work-from-home, productivity will dip significantly. The situation would become similar to the COVID lockdown except the fact that the rest of the country and the world would be running at their usual pace and Bengaluru will start lagging behind.

Ultimately, a prolonged crisis may force companies to shift to neighboring states or even countries, resulting in huge economic changes. Whenever businesses need to pay additional costs, the end consumer bears the brunt.

For the world to be unaffected, pray for rain in Bengaluru.

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I started indie hacking in 2023 and sold my first project, IconMage, an AI icon generator in 2024. With the experience that I gained from my first project, I decided to write The Micro SaaS Playbook. In this eBook, I guide a beginner through all the phases of micro-SaaS development from ideation to exit. It is currently rated at 5 stars.

I realized most makers struggle with one common problem: they spend too much time starting. Hours spent on mundane tasks like authentication and payment integration kill their motivation and most side projects never get launched.

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