According to a recent report by the NITI Aayog, India’s Planning Commission, Twenty-one cities, including Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting 100 million people. One of these cities, Chennai is already battling with an unprecedented crisis and many believe that the next city on the list is the rapidly growing Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore.

Welcome to the RadicalXchange Bangalore Podcast. In this episode, we sat with Ankit Bhargava, an urban planner by profession and co-founder of Sensing Local Foundation to talk about Bangalore’s water crisis, his experience of working with the government and other stakeholders for reviving Bangalore’s lakes and a few possible solutions to deal with the water crisis. So, let’s listen to Ankit. Sorry for the background noise as we recorded this at a cafe.