The deer died in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park has now put the park’s water woes in the spotlight, with accusing that the animal lost its life to dehydration.

Summer just took its first step and the park already bears a dehydrated look with natural water sources quickly drying out. Since the park officials haven’t even bothered to fill the artificial watering holes for them. Despite, they are wasting hundreds of litres of water by over showering on the garden.

They are of the opinion that the animal might have died due to severe dehydration. While the SGNP veterinarian claimed the deer died due to septicaemia.

 “A spotted deer was found at SGNP on Thursday afternoon. It was in an unconscious state. We immediately brought the deer to our hospital where it died in the afternoon around 2-3 pm while undergoing treatment. It is difficult to say what the exact cause of death is until the autopsy reports are out. I don’t think that it died because of heat because we have adequate water in the park for the wild animals, but we suspect that it might have died because of septicaemia.”

In fact, the Krishnagiri range is not the regular haunt for deer since it is within a kilometre of the park entrance. Instead, the deer prefer to stay deeper inside the core area, towards the Kanheri caves. It is because the interior ranges are dry that they have been pushed out to the edges, closer to the river. Veterinarian Dr Shailesh Pethe said,