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Mihir Sharma ByBloombergOne of India’s largest cities, Chennai, is dealing with a crippling crisis: It has run out of water. Two hundred thousand Indians already die every year because they don’t have a safe water supply, the report said. According to the country’s Central Water Commission, it requires at most 3,000 billion cubic meters of water annually and receives 4,000 billion cubic meters of rain. ALSO READ | Water crisis boosts sale of plastic potsBut too much water is wasted thanks to inefficiency and misuse. ALSO READ | Chennai water crisis hits construction sectorA rapidly urbanising and developing India needs to drought-proof its cities and rationalize its farming..