mysore mysoreans both young and the old were busy preparing for the festival of colours on the eve of holi with holi catching the fancy of people from all walks of life the cultural capital is gearing up for the celebrations like never before holicolours vegetable colours and water balloons are flying off the shelves of shops here but following scarcity of water everywhere there are chances of celebrations becoming a dry affair this time youngsters who celebrate the festival by throwing smearing colours on each other by pouring colourlaced water and hurling water balloons are having second thoughts to celebrate waterless holi arts student mandara g feels holi is best celebrated with water but the water scarcity has made us think twice before celebrating the festival we may celebrate it without water she said endorsing her concerns jyeshta shetty a student of national institute of engineering said at our hostel we girls have decided to celebrate holi with vegetable colours and without water abhishek gowda of maharajas college said that they are dutybound to save water at a time when farmers are reeling under drought also water scarcity adds to peoples problems in summer holi is a festival of colours and celebrating the same with natural colours should suffice gowda added however its not that everyone is going to celebrate waterless holi some youngsters like engineering student ashwan a b want to celebrate it by using water lavishly ashwan feels that celebrations are not complete without water and water balloons the festival comes once in a year and there should not be any compromise with the celebrations he added we know that there is a need to save water but this particular festival wont be a fun without water said a group of girls staying at paying guest hostel in saraswathipuram