Conserve water to preserve human life

This refers to your thought-provoking article “Save water” (March 22) by Patiksha Baruah. Water is the base on which our life is built and is one of the most valuable resource of nature. It is an endless creation of God so people don’t take care. Can we imagine a day without clean water? No, not a single day of our life can go forward without water. In spite of having 70% of water on earth but only 1% of water is fresh & useable and other 97% of water is salty, 2% of water is in form of ice in the glaciers and icebergs. Human beings are destroying the environment by wasting this 1% of clean water in various ways.

Day by day, it is becoming clear that water is going to be the biggest casualty of the modern development process. We are forced to buy clean drinking water after polluting every known source. Nowadays mineral or purified water is a billion dollar business. People are ready to spend Rs. 20 for a water bottle as we know it’s not easy to get pure or clean water.

Increasing population and rapid urbanization has led to over-use of water resources leading to water pollution and scarcity.

We leap to blame nature whenever there is a flood or a water scarcity. Unless water is used equitably, and in a non-partisan manner, playing with it may prove to be more risky than playing with fire. Don’t we think leaving aside global solutions; something should be done at the national and regional levels? Let’s join our hands in saving water as much as possible. Let our motto be “Save water, save life, save the world”.

Vinod C. Dixit,

Ahmedabad