Ownership vote mooted for 2020 - It’s time to face reality on water

India’s sixth-largest city, Chennai is in crisis as its water reservoirs and rivers have run dry.

Failing water resources will by next year affect 100m Indians. India’sclimate and gross poverty in such a rich country may turn this failure into a crisis. Half a world away, 8,795km, the same issues are in play in Galway though not critically yet.