Shimla Water Crisis Symptomizes a Greater Malaise

(Water, the most precious natural resource on earth, worries the world now. The rapidly growing population and the changing climate have adversely affected the water cycles world over. A 2014 survey of 500 major world cities revealed that every fourth city was under water stress. Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh this summer underwent a serious water crisis when people had to que up in lines for water at a supply which was as late as 8 to 10 days intervals. The current paper tries to explore the reasons behind the water crisis that alarms of a greater problem in the future. )