Major water shortages have crippled the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, as people are stockpiling water in the city of Chennai while the drought in the area continues.

Footage filmed yesterday (June 27) shows people stockpiling pots of water and truck-mounted tanks carrying supplies to drought-stricken neighbourhoods.

The city has had to scramble for urgent solutions and residents have to stand in line for hours to get water from government tanks. As the water levels have been depleted, hotels and restaurants have started to shut down temporarily, and the air-con was turned off in the city's metro.

The city has been on the edge battling acute water shortage for the last few weeks, as several reservoirs ran dry largely because of poor monsoon rains last year.

The acute water shortage has forced the city to scramble for urgent solutions and residents have to stand in line for hours to get water from government tanks. As the water levels depleted, hotels and restaurants started to shut down temporarily, and the air con was turned off in the city's metro. Officials in the city continue to try and find alternative sources of water - but the community continue to pray for rain.

DiCaprio who is a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change has been quite vocal about the hazardous impacts of global warming and other environmental issues.

The Chennai water crisis issue has a grabbed a lot of eyeballs from across the world highlighting the grave concern of water scarcity, which poses a grave challenge to the survival of mankind on planet earth.

The city has been on the edge battling acute water shortage for the last few weeks as several reservoirs ran dry largely because of poor monsoon rains last year.