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Share water, spare the environment
Major conflicts around water pit nation against nation, state against state, communities against communities and individuals against individuals. Come summer and the shortages abound and conflicts increase. How do we then create a paradigm around sharing and conflict minimisation?
Let us look at examples of sharing waters. The ‘pyaoos’ of old have provided free drinking water in many a railway station and bus stand and many a busy street.
This instinct to supply water free still persists in this day and age of privatisation. Moving away from philanthropy let us look at some other examples.
Water in nature is not constrained by administrative or property boundaries.
Either below the ground or on the surface it respects only slopes and the law of gravity. As any drawing of the hydrological cycle will tell you water flows ultimately joining the seas. Understanding hydrological flows and hydro-geological flows is crucial to determine how wisely we use water.
Consider the example of two sites adjoining each other and not served by the city lines. What sense does it make for each site owner to sink a well or a borewell each to draw from the same source?
When the aquifer is full both will get water and when it is dry both will suffer from the want of water irrespective of whether each has a well or not. milies. Borewells have potential ideal locations not depending so much on site ownership as hydrogeology.
If a neigbourhood invests collectively in borewell and a supply system it is much cheaper than all individuals sinking their own borewells.
S. VISHWANATH
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