The Sun god is very angry this summer.
Beginning mid-March he has surpassed his own record of
shining and giving heat, at least in the capital of Karnataka, Bangalore. I came
to Bangalore in January 2015 and since then this is the first summer which
really has broken all the previous records of highest temperatures in an
otherwise cool city. Temperature this year has touched 41 degrees where Mumbai
is at 31 degrees only.
Sun god shouldn’t be blamed actually. People have invited
his wrath by their own doings. Farm lands are converted into non-agricultural
lands and towers and buildings are coming up. A green jungle has now got
replaced by a concrete jungle. Trees are cut for widening roads, but no one
thinks of planting a new sapling somewhere else. 100s of lakes have dried up
and become dirty due to ill maintenance and people now have to rely on tankers
for daily water supply.
We have a whatsapp group of all the ladies in the society. Every
morning some or the other lady messages about no water in her block and then
others also second her. We all wait for the tankers and we fill up buckets and
every possible vessel with water, not knowing when the water supply will
vanish. Bore wells have all dried up thanks to the depleting level of ground
water. Every huge complex has at least 10 bore wells, how long will water be
available in them?
Cauvery water is still not available to everybody in
Bangalore and that is also one of the reasons why this tanker mafia has
strengthened its hold on the Bangalore public staying in huge houses outside
the main town where Cauvery water is available. Slowly it should be attempted
to supply water all over Bangalore. But how much water will suffice for the
ever-growing population? The city grows at exponential rate but there is hardly
any effort to conserve resources. This year our complex has decided to go for
rain-water harvesting. I really pray that we get good rainfall this year which
we can treat and use in summer next year. I really want my complex association
to cut down the costs and dependency on tankers.
Adults have to use water sparingly and pass on the knowledge
of not wasting water to our next generation also. We as responsible citizens should
do our bit to conserve the depleting natural resources or else that day won’t
be far when we will fight and kill each other for procuring the basic needs
like water and air.
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