{"id":3517,"date":"2022-09-15T03:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T03:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/traffic-water-shortages-now-floods-the-slow-death-of-indias-tech-hub\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T03:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T03:02:23","slug":"traffic-water-shortages-now-floods-the-slow-death-of-indias-tech-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=3517","title":{"rendered":"Traffic, water shortages, now floods: the slow death of India\u2019s tech hub?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">Thu, 2022-09-15 05:52<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\n\tBENGALURU: Harish Pullanoor spent his weekends in the late 1980s tramping around the marshes and ponds of Yemalur, an area then on the eastern edge of the Indian metropolis of Bengaluru, where his cousins would join him catching small freshwater fish.<br \/>\n\tIn the 1990s, Bengaluru, once a genteel city of gardens, lakes and a cool climate, rapidly became India\u2019s answer to Silicon Valley, attracting millions of workers and the regional headquarters of some of the world\u2019s biggest IT companies.<br \/>\n\tThe untrammelled expansion came at a price.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item odd\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2022\/09\/15\/3443026-1330520446.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"813\" alt=\"\" title=\"Traffic moves as water is pumped out of an inundated residential area following torrential rains in Bengaluru, India, on Sept. 7, 2022. 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