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Now Amazon will sell water to Bengaluru via drones

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Bengaluru. Following the deepening of the water crisis in south Bengaluru partially due to an unusually intense summer, online marketplace Amazon has decided to sell drinking water via drones. The water will be more 'Himalayan' than Patanjali's and will have the capability to quench every thirst instantly. Amazon has been doing trial runs for its own offices near Bellandur and had an amazing jump in employee satisfaction ratings. Drones will be deployed to deliver this water as there is no guarantee that the water will survive the urban traffic melee on the roads. An Amazon spokesperson told us that water may be the next biggest business in India after cricket, movies and politics. Drones can help deliver it more safely than human agents as complaints were trickling in of agents asking for water to drink from the customers after regular deliveries.  

Our team went to a number of residential societies in Bellandur, and were appalled at the their current condition. The IT hub denizens drive in Audi and BMW cars, but they still have to wait for their rationed water to do their daily chores. Their Olympic-size swimming pools are barren, gardens wilted and cars dusty. Children roamed around with scuffed collars. Maids were let off easy. The usual extravagance in the bathrooms is now reduced to furtive splashes of some pitiful drops of water. Many seemed hopeful when we mentioned that water will soon be delivered by drones. Amazon seems to be a godsend in a place infested with an aggressive tanker mafia and a dysfunctional government.

On contacting the office of the Bengaluru Tanker Association over alleged acute price hikes, we were bleakly reminded of 'free market' economics of demand and supply. There was an awkward pause when we mentioned drones but it was left to speculation whether the dip in supply has been artificial or natural.

On asking whether the drone technology was mature enough, the spokesperson informed us that IPL has increased the recall of this technology in public memory, and in the age of populism and Netflix, consumer is the king. People would like the idea to be served by a drone. India is to be the first country where drones would be used to deliver commodities-- primarily because of a lackadaisical government and punctured law system.
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