Water woes

"Water water everywhere
but not a drop to drink"

Summer is set in, not even a month. But, Wordsworth's lines ring true for Bangaloreans. We, the Bangaloreans are thirsting away our days in the hot summer sun. It was not this bad these many years. Now it is like we are standing on a hot burner with parched lips and thirsty heart.

The Kaveri is flowing some kilometers from us... there are water bodies around us ( unfortunately we can't even think of going near it, forget drinking it).No, we can't blame the corporation, or the government for it. What they will do? Bangalore has no rivers to boast of. Our only water provider is Kaveri, that too after too much or sharing -waring. Kaveri too has nothing much to offer.
The next option is bore well.. every house in a locality has at least one bore well and that too they dig it deep as the year passes by. The result.. even if you go deep down to the earth's centre there is not even a drop of water. The erratic and unplanned digging of bore well has robbed us of the little pure water we can boast of.

Then where is the remedy?Where is our saviour? It is only us.We have already dirtied all our water bodies, encroached upon us, disturbed its feeders... We dug bore wells indiscreetly around us, emptied out even the stored ground water... where can we go now? whom can we ask? The only way out is replenish the ground water and our water bodies, bring them to life again.. But how?

If we are stubborn we can achieve it. But it needs a little bit of selflessness. Unclog the water channels that used to feed the water bodies in our area, stop throwing garbage in to the lake or the channels that feed it,  stop polluting water bodies and above all save each drops of rain water. Government has taken steps to ensure rain water harvesting. Let us join hands with them and build rain water harvesting system in our house. It is not very costly when you compare it with the benefit.