The fact is today, in Bombay, there are a large number of people, especially women, that get up at 3 a.m. in the morning and their job is to get two pots of water all day, so they can cook for their families. These people form a huge population, but they aren’t part of the opinion-making society, they aren’t part of the government, the media, the elite, or the bureaucracy, who can still get water.

This isn’t happening in some parched rural land, it’s happening in cities like Mumbai, where some people can, if they want, have a shower all day, in five-star hotels and their apartments. We are adapting by creating two societies: those that can afford water and those that can’t.

But this inequity and adaption creaks and breaks when the elite society is unwilling to accept and live with the idea of shortage because they are used to over-consumptiveness. And there is going to be a huge amount of social unrest because you can still survive with one good meal a day, but if you don’t have water every two hours, it’ll cost your life.