Water, water everywhere

Water, water everywhere, no water to use!?

A small summary as to how we can manage water and still live in peace.

Guess about a decade ago, the ADMK party while in power introduced the rain water harvesting scheme. Steps were religiously followed, and checks were done to validate that each household had a rain water harvest provision. This helped collect the rain water and increase the ground water table.

Are the audits continued now to check rain water harvest? If not, can we reinstate the good practice and bring it back to life?

Well, apart from the long struggle that won several cusecs of water that was released and the chaos that's stirred between the two States and the insecurities raised amidst the people of two States, is there a long term solution that we can do from our own side?

I believe yes, the entire Tamil Nadu state highways and key road routes can create rain water harvest pits every kilometer, and can be directly managed, implemented and funded by local corporations or districts, thereby collect the rain water, rather let it mix with drainage or loss to sea.

There's a correlation and causality between deforestation rate and rain fall deficit. A whole lot of trees are being chopped and new saplings are not being replaced, causing impact with increased warm temperatures. As I grew up in my school we were encouraged to grow at least one tree per household. But that was during a time when apartments or flats were not even existing. Now households per acre have increased several folds requiring more trees be planted.

I wonder if people have lost the thought in their mind that flora and fauna coexist with circulation of oxygen and carbon dioxide between each other.

Another alarming factor is the water bodies being converted as lands and real estates based on illegal poaching of lands which were once water bodies.

A lot can be done in terms of water treatment of sewage or drainage which can be reused in various ways.

If penny saved is penny gained & each drop makes an ocean are true, a lot of water can be saved and ground water table can be increased.

Thoughts? Write below!

Love,

Will the madness ever end!?

Ohio zoo officials brought down the life of one to save that of another. Are the fictions and marvel stories encouraging such ideas!?

Madness! A gorilla named Harambe was shot down to death with a claim to save a child. As usual there's debate that it was mother's fault and other contradicting claims on whose fault it is.

But, wait how could you kill a gorilla to save a child!? As in who taught who as to which life is more worth!? And who ever allowed to imbibe that a gorilla is less worth than human!?

First of all, I hold an opinion that animals being caged and kept in captive or human control is by it self madness. Nature created all as equal and somehow man has a little more or probably little less than these animals. Man would be root cause for destruction and become the next dinosaur on earth to be eradicated at the alarming way we're cutting down trees, converting lakes as apartments and so on.

I never have expressed anywhere that the human born was inferior or the gorilla must have been allowed to kill the child. I'm simply of opinion that a different approach could have been deployed. What ever happened to the tranquilizers or other ways to distract the poor animal and save the child too!?

What was the failure mode for the child's entry to the moat!?

Will we ever change from keeping these animals under captive and learn to coexist!?

Animals are no way inferior to us. Nature created every creation with a reason behind. Just because man put a stupid pyramid of food chain and kept himself on the top doesn't mean he's actually the superior one. This too shall pass and we humans might be proved to a point to what our weaknesses are. And that's not too long!

Love,

Cloud Gazing

I write this post as I lie down on the terrace of a 5 storey apartment flat I currently reside. I see those tiny dots twinkle on a dark background sky. The clouds move past me as though milk boils down from a vessel.

It's been ages since I got myself to connect with nature and forget this man made life. Thoughts get so vivid and imagination rises to its peak as I lay here and watch the clouds moving past me.

In the evenings, as I take a stroll around my office, I see a lot of heron and strokes walking on the grass and catching their prey and running around cheerfully. A lot of other birds are constantly wading around the marsh fields near by.

They do their duty and nothing else. To live, feed, keep the food chain active, breed and beget, die and decompose. It makes me feel, why did humans evolve and build so many sky scrapers and get too stranded away from nature?

May be, humans are doing our duty bestowed upon us, to bring destruction to earth, and thereby reset the cycles.

When was the last time you tried star gazing?! It's not too late! Go right now!

Love,