History is repeating itself. This year too, Pune has received scanty rainfall till now and the water level in four dams (which supplied drinking water to city) has gone down rapidly to create drinking water scarcity in city. Same thing happened last year. That time government authorities promised and declared that they have made plans on paper to handle this kind of problem very efficiently in future but then nothing happened. As soon as monsoon arrived in August/September last year, all plans on paper got washed away with rain water flow in dams. Compared to November 2008, we had more water reserved in dams in November 2009 and also municipal corporation has reduced water supply significantly to city, then too we have only around 1.5 TMC water left in dams and we are going to face acute water crisis in coming days. Issues are still same:
1. Water distribution system here at Pune is faulty and need revamp. 25%-30% water get wasted in distribution. Some areas get more than average quota and some don't even get 50% of average quota.
2. Authorities are busy in making money or at least busy in trying to find out a situation to make more money. They are not serious to really take on this situation and work out for a good robust solution which will work for long term. Might be they are thinking that rain god became happy in August/September last year and same pattern may follow this year too so why to put extra efforts.
3. Citizen are wasting water to their full capacity and don't understand (or don't want to understand) the importance of natural resources. We feel happy in keeping ourselves educated illiterates.
All eyes on rain god. Who knows he may become happy soon and all dams will get enough water for next one year. Lets prepare for YAGNA to make rain god happy......
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