Give a Little Thought to Water Conservation on National Level

When we face severe water shortage, what we can do to save our people from drought.......

When people are suffering from water shortage and many places facing drought leaders and authorities who need to plan for future, only think of providing some relief money to people to blind the eyes of common man and get appreciation from others.

Nobody is concerned about what need to be done for tomorrow to avoid such situation.  Nobody has vision to provide long term solutions.

I would like to put forward the points I wrote on my blog around 5 years back again.

Let me take the case of Delhi.

A city like Delhi, it is not possible for people to harvest rain water due to lack of space. But  government can do it with the help of people. Following steps can help:

• Implement a master plan to collect rain water of Delhi at a particular place.

• First of all a develop water collection tanks with capacity of minimum storage capacity of  5000 lakh liter water with various level of  filtering system at a place where 4-5 residential colonies can be connected through strong and sufficient pipelines to collect water from terrace of each building.

• Put separate pipelines for rainwater from terrace of each building that can be channeled to the storage at every location.

• Make people aware of the importance of water harvesting and keeping the terrace clean and assign people to open the water harvesting channel only when it rains to collect rain water.

• Create a big lake to channel all the waters stored in water tanks at different places when it is full.  Channel the stored water  to the Lake and preserve it so that  Delhi has sufficient water for years.

• Also make a project to refill the abandon bore wells with rain water so that the retreated water level comes to earlier levels.

• Stop wasting of water

• Keep the water resources clean

• Enforce strict rules to stop polluting the rivers and clean them

• At last connect all Indian states with a centralized huge water supply lines by which water can be diverted from any place where it is sufficient at a time to another place faces drought.  Water to be treated as national property and central government has to monitor the above activity with the help of states so that everywhere everybody get sufficient water all the time and this can also save unnecessary flooding

Let me conclude with saying, only a person with long vision and passionate about people can implement this kind of project.