Rainbow Drive, a housing colony on Sarjapur Road, has never known a water shortage. It is a big thing in Bengaluru where tankers routinely make up the deficit in municipal supply and predictions have it that the city’s groundwater will all but vanish in a few years from now.
Not so at Rainbow Drive where its residents in 280 homes don’t live with such daunting fears. They are secure in the thought that they will always have enough — thanks to some 250 recharge wells dug in backyards and stormwater drains that soak up almost as. . .