Climate and Water

It is jokingly said that Chennai has two seasons - a hot and humid season, and then summer, when it gets hotter and even more humid. It does not enjoy the South-west monsoon, but gets its bountiful rains from the North-east monsoon from October through December, thus amounting to about 125-150 cm of rainfall annually. December and January are the mildest months temperature-wise.
Historically Chennai has the problem of drinking water as no big river flows through it. Almost all the families ranging from lower middle class to higher class and all the offices buy the drinking water. Big players like Kinley and Aquafina suffice the need of bigger organizations and affordable families and small players like Aquafresh etc is ideal for middle class families. Chennai is on the top of the list of cities where lot of ground water is used. In recent years due to some heavy and consistent rains water issues have come down a lot, but still drinking water continues to be a bigger issue.