Till last week, lot of areas in Chennai had gone dry. Wells had turned into dustbins in many parts of Chennai. Bore pumps were not pumping out water. Few more days and the situation would have turned too bad and ugly. Thankfully, rain arrived - though a bit late. Forget the difficulties that the rain poses to the city dwellers - water logged roads, etc etc. The trouble is just for five or six days. Without rain, it would be a year long trouble !! In Chennai, it has been raining for the past three days and still, I think, the water bodies have not received enough inputs to sustain till next year.
It is here that we need to think about the importance of water bodies - many water bodies in Chennai have already turned into "plots" -or- is already a sewage canal. News relating to melting of glaciers, Artic ice, etc., indicating global warming is a real point of concern. Natural resources are visibly bursting at its seams. The only initiative, to save natural resources, I ever saw in Tamil Nadu was before few years - the rule, which made saving of rain water in all buildings a mandatory condition. That brought in a visible change in the water table level in the city. Many such proactive measures needs to put in place before it is too late !!
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