shortage of water editor times of India
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No real solution to our water shortages has been presented or considered. All we have seen and heard is how to live with the problem. Conservation is obviously necessary, but it is not a solution.
We need a national approach similar to our electricity grid. Local plans such as those considered to “Save the Sacramento Delta” do not increase water supplies. They only save fish. Ecological safeguards are important, as always, but they do not solve the water shortage problem. The problem needs to be approached on a bigger scale. It is bigger than any one state, and no state can solve this problem for the entire country, let alone for itself.
While California braces for a water disaster, Washington state is seeing rain wash away hillsides and bury towns. We often see too much water in one place, while another suffers a drought. While the plains are dying of thirst, millions of acre feet of water are pouring into the Pacific.
Let’s consider a nationwide system of storage lakes and pipelines. Like building the interstate highway network, it would be a huge, expensive endeavor. Building an interstate pipeline network plus water storage facilities would take years and billions of dollars. All states and the federal government would need to participate to get this financed and completed. It would benefit the entire nation by solving a problem that has been haunting the United States from the birth of our nation. California has a great need and should lead the nation in solving a problem that will get worse as our population inevitably grows.
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Mehrauli Gurgaon Road, New Delhi
Dated 28th November 2019
To
The Editor-in-Chief,
The Times of India,
New Delhi, India
Subject: Irregular supply & water scarcity cricris.
Respected Sir,
Through the columns of your esteemed daily newspaper, I woul like to highlight the problem of water scarcity in Mehrauli Gurgaon Road locality.
Due to the irregular supply of water the residents of this locality are facing untold hardships. We have great trouble even to meet our daily basic water requirement. We have run from pillar to post requesting the authorities to restore regular water supply but to no avail.
Therefore, through this newspaper, I earnestly request the Municipal Corporation and also the higher authorities to look into the matter and restore regular supply of water as soon as possible. The residents of Mehrauli Gurgaon Road area will be grateful for an early action.
Yours sincerely,
REETU SINGH
Mehrauli Gurgaon Road
New Delhi