Oscar winning star Leonardo Di Caprio, who rose to fame through “Titanic”, has drawn eyes towards the water crisis that is prevalent in Chennai. On a major social media platform, Instagram he shared a picture of a dry well and expressed his views by saying : “Only rain can save Chennai from this situation. A well, completely empty, and a city without water.

The southern Indian city of Chennai is in crisis, after the four main water reservoirs ran dry. The acute water shortage has forced the city to scramble for urgent solutions and residents have to stand in line for hours to get water from government tankers. As the water levels depleted, hotels and restaurants started to shut temporarily, and the air con was turned off in the city’s metro. Officials in the city continue to try and find alternative sources of water – but the community continue to pray for rain.”

From the past few days, Chennai has been facing severe water crisis. While lakes like Cholavaram( full capacity 1081 million cubic feet), Redhills(full capacity 3300 million cubic feet) and Chembarabakkam( full capacity 3645 million cubic feet) that supply water to Chennai have gone dry, there is only 19 million cubic feet water left in the Poondi reservoir(full capacity 3231 million cubic feet), according to the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, reported news agency IANS.