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Bengaluru’s fix for the water-tanker “mafia”: yet more tankers. What could go wrong?

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14.03.2026

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Bengaluru’s water utility loses two things at a remarkable rate—water and money. 

A thirdOfficial Journal of the World Water Council of the water that goes into its pipes never comes out the other end, and the operation loses Rs 80 croreDeccan Herald a month. One of these is the cause, the other the consequence, but after a decade of both, it is not clear which is which.

What is clear, though, is that for people living........

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