Water for important occasions
Updated On: 08 July, 2023 06:57 AM IST | Mumbai | Lindsay Pereira
Minor changes to how we consume this precious resource can prepare us for the catastrophe at our doorsteps
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We should slowly train children to stop taking water for granted. They need to learn that there may not be much of it around when they hit puberty, so why not start now? Representation pic
Why does the BMC issue the same press releases every other year during the months of February, March, April, or May, informing us all about the possibility of water cuts? They may not do it for each of those months, but the notices seem to appear in most newspapers like clockwork nonetheless, asking us all to be prepared, as if we aren’t primed to function with less water than most other people on the planet. Prepare for a 20 per cent cut this time, they say, or a 15 per cent cut, their numbers thrown out as if at random, with as little meaning for the common man as those predictions of rain from the meteorological department.
Water cuts in our city are as common as MPs with criminal histories, which is why I find no need for these notifications. We know they are inevitable, and all we can do is pray, like our parents and their parents did, for enough rain in catchment areas to sustain us for just another year until the next set of water cuts is announced.
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