Leonardo DiCaprio Just Spoke Out About the Chennai Water Crisis

Leonardo DiCaprio cares a LOT about the environment. He has donated a million dollars to the Save the Tigers campaign, founded the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation dedicated to the long-term health and wellbeing of all Earth’s inhabitants, and produced the 2106 documentary on climate change Before the Flood.

 

The actor and environmentalist’s Instagram feed is full of posts like these, alerting the people of the world to the dangers of climate change and other important environmental issues.

 

 

 

 

 

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#Regram #RG @abcnews: Massive 223-ft. shape of a whale made of plastic waste collected from the ocean, in event in China raising awareness of sea pollution. #pollution #environment #ocean #whales #beaches

A post shared by Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) on Jun 16, 2019 at 4:53pm PDT

 

 

 

 

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#Regram #RG @oneearth: How Belize saved it's coral reefs with grassroots action and government collaboration. . . . #OneEarth #biodiversity #Ecology #coralreefs #belize #ocean #conservation #oceanconservation #pristine #coral #water #nature #Environmental #environment #caribbean #coastal #coast #marine

A post shared by Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) on Jun 19, 2019 at 10:44am PDT

 

 

 

 

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#Regram #RG @mongabay: Logging and hunting have decimated a population of Bornean orangutans in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park in Indonesia. Help has recently come from a pair of unlikely allies: an animal welfare group and a human health care nonprofit. Cross-disciplinary collaboration to meet the needs of ecosystems and humans is becoming an important tool for overcoming seemingly intractable obstacles in conservation. Read about it on www.mongabay.com #orangutans #apes #greatapes #primates #animals #wildlife #conservation #environment #nature #indonesia

A post shared by Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) on Jun 21, 2019 at 8:17am PDT

 

Recently, Leonardo put up this Instagram post lamenting about Chennai’s water crisis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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#Regram #RG @bbcnews: "Only rain can save Chennai from this situation." A well completely empty, and a city without water. The southern Indian city of Chennai is in crisis, after the four main water reservoirs ran completely dry. 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. Tap the link in our bio to read more about Chennai's water crisis. (? Getty Images) #chennai #watercrisis #india #bbcnews

A post shared by Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) on Jun 25, 2019 at 1:42pm PDT

“Only rain can save Chennai from this situation. A well completely empty, a city without water,” wrote Leonardo, before going on to talk about the city's acute water shortage in detail. He also shared a link to the BBC news article about the situation. This is not the first time Leo has shared a post related to India’s environmental issues. He also shared this video of the Ghazipur trash mountains in Delhi, which are soon to become higher than the Taj Mahal!

 

 

 

 

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#Regram #RG @worldeconomicforum: 65 metres high and rising 10 metres every year. #india #tajmahal #environment #pollution #health

A post shared by Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) on Jun 23, 2019 at 5:28pm PDT

 

Chennai has been battling an acute water-crisis for many weeks now, and several of it’s water reservoirs have recently gone bone-dry. Leonardo's concerns are not unfounded, and many environmental organisations, NGOs and government bodies are working hard to bring some relief to the city's residents and find a solution to this alarming situation