Water

Thyagarajan · Jul 1, 2018

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The alarm rang at sharp 5:00AM, as usual I snoozed and continued to sleep.mini me started kissing and cuddling me, with a smile on my face I hugged her and woke up.

I took her to the bathroom to give her a shower,turned on the tap and after 30 minutes got a handful of water,immediately i washed her body with this.
Yes this is the way I was forced to give her a bath because of the water scarcity everywhere.

Every drop of water was precious and costlier than gold. My little angel wouldn’t believe when I told her in those days we had running water in the taps and, we would not turn off the taps inspite of water being filled in water tubs, we would keep the tap on while brushing our teeth.

We would wash our cars and bikes with running water and wouldn’t bother to turn off the tap
We all conveniently thought that nothing was happening to the water
There was lot of slogans and awareness about saving the water, however we were ignorant and careless and did not heed a word about those things.

I remember as a child I saw lot of parks, gardens and greenery everywhere which was now replaced by lot of sky scrapers. 8 glasses of water was recommended for drinking those days, but now we are forced to drink only quarter glass of water irrespective of being thirsty.

My mini me was both shocked and surprised listening to my words.she wanted to know when can she use water for her basic requirements, and why did the earlier generations not save water and why was there no initiative taken. It was like a slap on my face, because I hadn’t done anything to save the water too, i was comfortably blaming others for not doing.I never realized modernization was slowly making way to deforestation which in turn led to lack of rainfalls and scarcity of water. It was a vicious circle.
I should have done my part of saving the water, however I had not.

I held my little one’s palm and promised that I would not waste water and will do my part of saving it, when suddenly I heard my mini me’s voice, “ Mumma what are you telling,what do you want to save”?
I opened my eyes and saw that i was next to her on the bed, It did not take much time for me to understand that the whole thing was a dream.

I hope the coming generations are lucky enough to see the natural water bodies like river, lakes etc and are not surprised by the mention of the word water.

Let’s not wait for a day when we repent and curse ourselves and would have reached the stage where nothing can be done, lets pledge to save the water and save ourselves.

What are some of the steps you have taken to save water?
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mini in dream or in reverie situation is going to be more serious in few decades.
2. In some countries people carry oxygen to breathe as places are highly polluted.
3. Same way water whatever available are either polluted or depleted in stock underground and no research can ever find alternate to water.
4. With seasons affected shifted and earth average temperature raises, the scarcity of water would turn nations to vast desserts for sure. That is how dinosur extinct today.
5. Of course we have sea water but desalination requires diesel to run the plant but fossi fuel stock is getting depleted.
Omg. That is enough water gone under the bridge.
6. Due dearth of drinking water in oil exporting Arab nations, ships carrying oil to other ports after emptying oil fill the ship returns with potable drinking water. But for how long?.
Thank God I have water in can at home.
Regards.
God Bless the world to live with or without water!

sonishah32 · Nov 1, 2018

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In India, we have the option to choose the right water purifier from a wide range of brands and different models.
Livpure is the among the top 10 water purifiers in India.

girvani · Nov 2, 2018

Dear Nandini,

This is a wonderful post with a very important message to all of us. Thank you to your little mini to remind us make more effort to save the planet for the future generations.
Vani

satchitananda · Nov 2, 2018

I really got a shock and I thought, oops we are already there. Was relieved to read that it was only a dream, though truly, the day is not far off.

Viswamitra · Nov 2, 2018

Dear Nandini,

I lived in Neyveli when I was a school-going child. We had plenty water in that town as they were digging Lignite from 180 meters below the sea level, they need to keep pumping a lot of water every second. Had they stopped that activity, the mine would fill in with water quickly. Even during strike days, they used to have Engineers in charge of the water pumping to attend work. Besides, it used to rain a lot in that area always.

Fast forward, we moved to Chennai. Water became scarce and everyday we used to wake up at 4 a.m. to pump water. Each one of us had a quota of vessels to fill in. Many days, when my father saw me sleeping nicely, he used to finish my quota also but when I woke up, I used to feel so guilty.

Now, we live in Florida. So far we have not seen water shortage in this area as it rains at least for six months. The whole state is lush green always and full of trees. Interestingly, unlike other states, the trees remain green most of the months except January and February when they all turn dry due to cold weather touching 40 degrees. We have never seen snow ever here in Florida.

Viswa