Okay. I live in Chennai. And this is so NOT TRUE. A water tanker with ~10,000 liters of water costs about ~3-5k INR which works out to INR 0.5 per litre of water. Petrol on the other hand costs INR 77 per litre. So no water is nowhere near as expensive.
I also live in Chennai and I concur, also with intermittent rains in last couple of weeks, ground water situation has improved and we see less water tankers on roads
The what the hell are these guys talking about in the article?