RE: Sunday Special - from Mr HC Parekh, my ex-boss in L&T

Friday, 8 April 2016

Water Wars ?

Long time back , someone had said :

The third World War will be fought over water

I don't know about World War 3 , but I have a dreadful feeling that , soon enough , a Civil War may get fought over water in our country !

For decades , our Southern States have been fighting over the waters of Krishna , Kaveri , Godavari etc

Recently , Punjab has stopped supplying water to Haryana thru SYL ( Sutlej - Yamuna Link canal )

In the meantime , 10 States are declared " Drought Affected "

Section 144 has been imposed in Latur and other cities

Armed police are deployed to protect water-stealing from dams in Bundelkhand

Thousands of farmers in Maharashtra / Rajasthan are committing suicide because of crop failures , leading to starvation

Lakhs of drought-affected villagers are migrating to city-slums / railway platforms / under the city-bridges

Villagers are refusing to marry their daughters to youth in drought affected villages

Lakhs of women are trudging 10 KM in 40* C temperature to fetch a bucketful of water

Even children ( under age of 10 ) are leaving studies and waiting with pots , for the arrival of water tanker

Maharashtra CM , Fadnavis says : You may shift the IPL outside Maharashtra , if you wish  ! We are not supplying POTABLE WATER to stadiums !

What is holding him back to say : Sorry , potable or not , I will not allow IPL

to WASTE , 60 Lakh liters of water , under any circumstance !

  

Several World Bodies have forecast that by 2050 , millions will die in India due to water shortage

WHAT  IS  THE  PERMANENT  SOLUTION  ?

#  At the level of Central Government

*   Make " Water Conservation / Usage " , a  CENTRAL SUBJECT  in our

     Constitution . Remove it from the list of STATE SUBJECTS

*   Declare all existing sources of water ( Rivers and Lakes ) , as National

    Resources belonging to entire Nation and not to the particular State

     where these are  located

*   Make it Center's responsibility to decide which State shall use how

     much of each of these resource ( allocation / rationing )

*   Center will also be responsible for developing of future resources by

     digging lakes & ponds / building dams / interlinking rivers & lakes etc

     Use MNREGA funds for creating such assets

*   Center will not need permission of any State to implement such projects

*   Center will implement " River Interlinking " Project by 2025 , and for this,

     it will not require permission of any State

     As repeatedly lobbied by me , please find a way to divert BLACK MONEY

     to this Infrastructure SPV ( Tax haven or local - which is 100 times ! )

*   Mercilessly , shut down all factories dumping polluting effluents in rivers

#   At the level of State Governments

*   Make following mandatory for ALL buildings ( existing or future )

    +  Rain water harvesting system ( this tank to supply toilets / sinks etc )

    +  Recycling of water from Kitchen / Shower / Wash Basins, for use in

        toilets , by installing a simple sand filtering tank in society compounds

    +  Installation of water flow restricting devices in all taps

    +  Mechanism which stops water flow when hands are removed under tap

    +  Water Supply Cut of 25 % , round the year

         Do not raise Water Charges . The higher the charges , more ways will

         be found to evade ( as in case of Personal Income Tax ! )

         Water meters will get tempered or bypassed !

Note the following :

   

*   Of all the water that rains bring , 99 % flows out to seas, leaving 1 %

     on land

*   Out of this 1% , 99 % percolates into the ground , leaving 1 % ( of that

     1 % ) , into lakes above the ground !

*   75 % of earth's surface is covered with seas / oceans . So , really , there

     is PLENTY of water

*   Nature ( Sun ) has gifted the Earth with evaporation / condensation cycle

    which converts the salty sea water into distilled potable water,

    automatically / continuously , and deliver onto the land masses

    Amount of water falling as rain on land each year is 2.4 trillion meter cube ,
    more than 10 times the annual requirement of 7 billion earthlings , at the
    rate of 100 litres per person per day !

     

    As far as India is concerned , all that is required , is to dig 700,000

    ponds / lakes ( one in each village ) , where we capture / store rain water

*   These 700,000 ponds must be lined with Geo-Synthetic Fabrics to ensure

    that the captured water does not seep underground - a simple technology

*   Capturing most of rain water in these ponds , will raise the water table in

    bore wells

*   None of the above suggestions require Rocket Science !  But , even if it

    does , our Scientists who have sent Mars Orbital Mission , are quite

    capable of finding appropriate solutions !

I hope the Center / the State Governments and all the political parties , rise

above their differences and join hands , to avoid a CIVIL WATER WAR !

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09  April  2016

Warm Regards,

Hemen Parekh

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From: Nattu [mailto:iamnattu@gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: Sunday Special - from Mr HC Parekh, my ex-boss in L&T

Folks, Israel war with the Arab world, Palestine, Jordan, Syria is all water.

On 11 May 2017 8:26 PM, "Sambandam va" <sambandamva@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

My dear HRS,

 India is the major exporter of meat,specifically beef meat.Lot of slaughter houses are there all over India.

 Due to drought lot many animals are dying in TN due shortage of water & grass.

 Day is not faraway to hear the human/poor people death in villages due to shortage of drinking water.

 By introducing high breed & cross breed from Europe, we lost many of our desi bulls/cows.

 Water,our GPs saw in river,our parents saw in well,now we are seeing in cane & bottle,future kids may not get that too.

 There may be likely world war on water in future.

 Loving friend,

 V A S. 09841039239. Chennai.  

On Sunday, 7 May 2017 10:24 AM, Haridas Shenoy <hrshenoy1941@gmail.com> wrote:

REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION

Times of India ( 25 April 2017 ) carries following report :

“ Aadhar-like ID for all cattle soon , says govt “

All cows, their calves, oxen and bulls in the country will be tagged with a tamper-proof Unique Identification Number (UIN) to stop their smuggling, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday.

Informing the court about the decision which was in the works since the NDA government took office in 2014, solicitor general Ranjit Kumar told a bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud that "each animal will be tagged with a UIN with proper records of identification details — age, breed, sex, lactation, height, body colour, horn type, tail switch and special marks."

Kumar said, "The ministry of agriculture has devised a method of tamper-proof identification of cattle using polyurethane tags with a UIN sequence. It may be made mandatory for cows and their progeny throughout India."

The Centre said, "Already mass tagging of cattle for insurance purpose is being done by livestock development boards and animal husbandry departments in states.

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Next , expect the following , anytime soon , depending upon the controversy generated by Print media / TV channels / Social media / politicians trying to score brownie points / religious leaders / sundry experts / would-be celebrities etc :

·      Jain community demanding that this “ reform “ must cover ALL forms of LIFE , since all life-forms are EQUAL

They will advocate allotting to each life . a unique URL since there is no dearth of URLs under  IP V 6.0 ( approx. 50,000 trillion for each human being on earth )

·      Cattle belonging to Backward Communities will demand a RESERVATION QUOTA

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·      Cattle belonging to Poor people will demand “ direct transfer of benefit ( DBT ) “ into their Jan Dhan Bank Accounts , instead of munching on subsidized fodder

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·      Of course , meat-eating animals ( lions / tigers etc ) will demand their own QUOTA of the non- meat-eating animals ( they don’t care for DBT ! )

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·      In United Nations , Marine life will demand an upper limit of “ fishing “ ( ala Whales ) – species wise

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·      Thorough-bred Horses will demand that they want ‘ segregation ‘ from their lowly cousins

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·      White necked cranes of Siberia would demand special H1-B visas from Shri Donald Trump to enter the air space of U S of A

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·      A certain category of birds would not rest in peace until a “ Jatayu Temple “ gets built in Ahmadabad

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·      Expect high-flying eagles to demand re-naming of Mount Everest as “ Garuda Shikhar “

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·      Sparrows will hold a dharna in front of Parliament , demanding “ Affordable Nests “ on each and every tree

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·      Kites , harassed by crows would demand Air Traffic Control to monitor / regulate the flying of crows , only in designated air-lanes

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·      Lazy cats , getting up late ( around 10 am ) will want to put an immediate ban on cocks cooing at 5 am

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·      Peace-loving doves will demand “ Anti Romeo squads “ to protect them from crows

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·      Stray cattle would want free passage across state boundaries without toll-tax

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I have no doubt readers will add to the above list and submit it as the “ Charter of Demand of Non-Human Species of the Earth “ , to the Supreme Court , for its kind consideration before passing an order

HR Shenoy, 7666128505

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