RAIN WATER HARVESTING - A MUST

WATER
Conservation is not Saving alone !

When we teach our Children to conserve electricity, we teach them to switch off the lights and fans in the room when we leave the room.
We don’t teach them to live without electricity as our forefathers lived.
When we teach our children to conserve food, we teach them to serve only the quantity, which they can consume, and not waste food.
We don’t teach them to Starve in order to conserve food.
The same applies when we talk about water.
We need water for farming, every Industry needs water, people need water for themselves and their animals, water is needed for construction activities and as the population increases, the requirement of water will increase and drawing of water from the underground sources will and has to increase.
Water is life .. We need it for survival.
Can we curtail a person’s minimum water requirement? No
Can we cut down on cultivation area? No
Can we close our paper & steel & pharmaceutical & any industry? No
Can we stop putting up of new Industry? No
Can we let our Animals die? No
Can all construction activity be stopped? No
Water is not just for survival… we need it for all round growth…Of the society ….Of the Nation.

Water is not petroleum or Metal ore or coal, which face a risk of exhausting of stock some day.
Nature understands the ways better - It knows that for life on this planet air, sunlight and water will be required forever.
Hence it provides Day & Night, plenty of air and a system of monsoon to deliver water. This rainfall is our only source of water.
Each snowfall & rainfall comes to refill our water banks each year with pure distilled and cool water.
Our problem is that we don’t bother to even think on simple lines like - can any one ever increase his Bank Balance by withdrawing less money? NEVER! Sooner he will have nothing in the bank to withdraw from.
His Bank balance can only increase if he Deposits more than withdrawal.
This basic simple fact of life must be understood by all if we wish to see a comfortable scenario of water in coming years.

The nature’s delivery system is perfect – look at the beautiful network of rivers flowing through the main land of India. Look at the lovely ponds and lakes and springs.
Look at the fantastic under-ground network of aquifers, which provide water to all, anywhere and everywhere through wells.

These days it is considered a fashion or an In-Thing to speak and write about ground water table depletion. We must try and stop people from becoming popular socialites by shouting about excessive ground water withdrawals and make water their weapon to gain recognition?
Water is a subject which needs efforts and not words!
The requirement of water will increase if we want our country to progress. There will not only be pressure on water resources due to increase in population but also we shall need more water for our regularly increasing Agricultural activities, growing industries and for building up appropriate infrastructure.
We cannot reduce our water requirement and why should we attempt to do so when nature provides water in adundance. Why do we not recognize the actual problem with us?
Interestingly the quantity of water which falls in an area, is actually many hundred times more then the requirement of that area but unfortunately we make no attempt to put this water in the water banks both over and under the ground.
By making roads and buildings and flyovers, we have blocked the natural recharge paths of rain water and some of the natural flow paths of the rain water and this has resulted in less water being able to Re-charge the Ground water.
If we want to rectify this mistake, which we are committing by concretizing our globe, we must make artificial pathways, which can Re-charge the ground water and show to nature that we too value its gift to us.
The choice is between closing all industries and stopping construction activities and going back by 200 years or by continuing withdrawal of water as per our requirement for progress and simultaneous artificial ground water re-charge by Rain Water Harvesting in order to, not only prevent our ground water level from falling but to also augment it.
Through this article I request each and every person to emphasize that the need of the hour is to build structures, which will hold the treasure on the ground when the rainwater pearls fall from the sky or build structures, which will replenish the ‘treasure chest’ under the ground.
Use all resources to teach and motivate people to adopt rain water Harvesting rather then talking about Water Wars.
Let all of us put our energies to Rain water harvesting and once our deposit figure exceeds the withdrawal figure our bank balance of water will start building.

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