AHMEDABAD: While the country like India does not lack adequate rains for agricultural and domestic use, it certainly lacks methods of how to tap water and conserve it from monsoon to monsoon. Mahendra Modi, a UP-cadre IPS officer, spoke at length on this subject at a function organized by a city-based youth group on Tuesday.
Modi, additional director general of police (inquiry), has so far traveled to nine states and addressed 60 gatherings in the past five years on the subject of water conservation, well recharging and harvesting by inexpensive methods. "I got interested in the issue when I was posted in western UP as DIG. During my meetings with citizens, I was surprised to learn that people were more worried about water issues than law and order as there had been scanty rains for two consecutive years and farmers were apprehensive about the agricultural produce. It was thought provoking. I started consulting experts, researched national and international practices," he said.
"Everyone, right from a farmer to an apartment dweller, can conserve water and harvest it through ways such as recharge trenches in land and collection of rainwater on terraces. These methods are not expensive or complicated. I have seen dramatic changes in water levels in various parts of UP through such initiatives.
As the monsoon has arrived, it is a model time to start the savings for future so that we should not witness water wars," he said.
Modi, additional director general of police (inquiry), has so far traveled to nine states and addressed 60 gatherings in the past five years on the subject of water conservation, well recharging and harvesting by inexpensive methods. "I got interested in the issue when I was posted in western UP as DIG. During my meetings with citizens, I was surprised to learn that people were more worried about water issues than law and order as there had been scanty rains for two consecutive years and farmers were apprehensive about the agricultural produce. It was thought provoking. I started consulting experts, researched national and international practices," he said.
"Everyone, right from a farmer to an apartment dweller, can conserve water and harvest it through ways such as recharge trenches in land and collection of rainwater on terraces. These methods are not expensive or complicated. I have seen dramatic changes in water levels in various parts of UP through such initiatives.
As the monsoon has arrived, it is a model time to start the savings for future so that we should not witness water wars," he said.
Source:TNN
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