It was 6.00 in the morning; I was in my dream world, when the calling bell rang! with a jolt I got up, there stood our watchman with a notice in his hand. A bad news for all the residents of our apartment. Death? Fire? No! The shocking news was that the water supply would be restricted to jus an hour a day!! Oh God, now all the household routine has to be completed within this one hour and then store water for rest of the day! For how many days should I suffer the pain of getting up early, finishing my routine all before the water comes so that I can shun hearing my mom racket at me to switch on the washing machine, fill water in the buckets, finish my bath …Blah blah blah!
What effort has been taken up by the government to minimize the water scarcity? GOK when the massive river projects initiated by the government would be successfully launched and there will be some solution for the water problem in Chennai. Wish some Albatross flies over Chennai too!
The packaged drinking water has become a compulsory item in our daily shopping list. It is a shock to see Water that is supposed to be called as a free commodity next to Air is now being sold in the supermarket with competitive price tag adored to it. No wonders there are clinics coming up selling Oxygen too!
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Unfortunate
This is one of those lasting problems in Chennai.
No use complaining that its a lasting problem akshay, it has to be addressed and solved asap.
Actually, restricting the timings when the water will be supplied is infact more wasteful than continuous water supply. This is because the water that was stored today will be thrown away for water to be filled up the next day.
Chennai has had a water problem since times immemorial and the increasing population of the city, the apathy of the government, etc are not doing anything to help the problem.
The thing which is most surprising is that you get as much water as you want when you pay for it, but almost nothing free.
When proper desert cities of the Gulf have sufficient water and absolutely no water problem, there should be no reason as to why Chennai should have a water problem.
K7 i dont think people can afford to throw away water jus like tat coz every drop of it is paid!
When the bottling companies can get water, then why can't the government?
Didnt Rain water harvesting ever help you at all?
Thank God I exited. Stage left.
The rain water harvesting was only for eyewash and many people did for the sake of complying with the rule and it was not done to reap the benefit and hence was not that very effective
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