Throat's gone dry

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What's the point.

If someone doesn't do something quick, someone's gonna get shot. And although my aim's not that great...I am motivated.

I've just posted this to not only mark how ridiculous our political representatives are but also our media.
This is the same member of parliament who wants to commission a railway line that runs through the andaman islands from port blair to diglipur right where the great andaman trunk road currently stands. He's talking about a bridge that will join two islands.... Get me some f@#k^*g water to drink first. Everything sounds like something out of a god-d@mn sci-fi movie. We've started getting fresh water supply now ONCE in four days for twenty minutes. That's twenty minutes of water supply every four days!!!
And to think that we are supposed to experience fresh water raining out of the skies for nine months out of every twelve months that...that...what's the point!
It's ridiculous the number of masterplans these imbeciles come out with...they talk about converting an entire part of the sea into a fresh water dam...i mean can't they think real...like look at the amount of inundated paddy-fields...can't they just pay a decent price to the land-owners and use these entire stretches of wasted land as another rainwater harvesting project???
Can they not think long-term, long-last and affordable?

Oh, happy reading:

Dhannikhari Dam Dries Out, Remains With Only 24 Days of Water Supply

Islanders to Remain on High Alert

Port Blair, June 20: The only water source of Port Blair city
‘Dhannikhari Dam’ has almost dried out. With only 24 days of water
supply remaining in the dam, it’s an alert to the islanders especially
Port Blairians who completely depend on it.
.....what on planet f@#k%!^(MISSING)g earth is a port blairian???

Talking to the media persons at the Dhannikhari Dam on Saturday the
Member of Parliament Shri Bishnu Pada Ray said, “The main culprit is the
APWD which has been eyewashing the Administration”.

..."eyewashing" - how depressing

“The Port Blair Municipal Council has always been appealing the Andaman
Administration to have to 14 mld de-salination plant in the islands. Any
private company can install and handle it and the PBMC would buy water
from them. If this is done the city dwellers can have 24 hours of water
supply throughout the year”, Bishnu commented.

...desalination will never happen either...the environmentalists won't allow it...think workable, please

“It is unfortunate that instead of furthering the proposal which would
cost just Rs. 15 crores annually, the Andaman Administration has been
brushing it aside and misutilizing the planned funds to build palatial
police stations, transit accommodations, govt. quarters etc which will
not be of any help to the islanders”, the MP said.

The APWD has even gone to the extent of submitting false report on the
water status even to the Parliament, Ray said. If this is the present
situation there will soon be riots in the city, he added.

...and something tells me he'll be the first to get shot

“At present the water level in the dam is 46.05 meter and the last value
for water to be sent through gravity is 45 meters. If the water goes
below 45 meters, we will have to pump it”, explained Nagender, Junior
Engineer, APWD posted at the dam.

...oh, quite an up-hill battle isn't it - "pumping"

“We only have 24 days of water supply remaining. This is due to poor
showers we have been receiving”, the Engineer said. While the catchment
area of the dam is spread upto 14 Kms, at present the water we have is
restricted to 1.5 Kms, he added.

...instead of conveniently blaming it on the rain - or the lack of it, maybe just maybe our member of parliament has done enough damage by bringing in hordes of homeless illegal settlers to build his vote bank. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that while our islands' settler population is trippling every five years, our resources haven't increased by a f@#k%!^(MISSING)g millimeter!
...oh, how depressing

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Comments

[Nikhil]

water harvesting
Why don't you do rain water harvesting? sounds like something worth your time and effort..

[tanaz]

rain water harveting
You mean why don't i as in as an individual do rain water harveting for myself or are you suggesting the only obvious suggestion that the government should be following? If it's the former i already do rain water harvesting that's four dams on my farm of nothing but rain water that still nearly goes dry in eak summer due to regular consumption by just five individuals and one big sun. So what? Why should the government not do it? Do you know how much water each individual consumes...you consume...in a day? At least 250 litres a day and an average of four-five hundred litres a day. If you're suggesting that every individual in these isalnds take the burden of water-provision off the shoulders of the government then do you understand the kind of storage capacity each individual would have to possess in order to store enough water to last through the year? Rain water harvesting is a sensible option only if it is done in a huge lake or resevoir or whatever. It will not last you past three days of the rainy season if you surround your house with syntex tanks that catches rain water only. Rain-water-harvesting is an option that the government should be carrying out for the civilians. Incidentally, everybody does catch rain water...as much of it as they can...but individually it won't last longer than a day or two past the rains. tanaz

[Nikhil]

water problems
I'll tell you this: Mumbai, India's financial hub has water issues. Every year in the months preceding the monsoon and during the rains, daily headlines only rave about the amount of water we have left in our lakes. The obvious question to ask here is why can't the government start salt water treatment plants for in port cities like Mumbai, chennai etc. You know why they can't? Cause they're going around commissioning 2km sea links that cost thousands of crores and which only add to the problem. The farther you go from the big city, the less important you become. It's as simple as that. Either you take things into your own hands or you can sit and cry till kingdom come. You've always been a fighter, why not take the next step? You've taken up water harvesting and you're saving your skin. Good for you. What about the others? Spread awareness, set up a trustor an NGO. Get aid. Become a politician. You were built for that sort of stuff ;)

[tanaz]

salt to sweet
Hi, now, the only reason i've accepted to display your comment is because that's the only way i can reply to it. To the point: I'm not scandalous enough to be a politician and i don't like making promises i cannot keep. Next: Turning salt water into fresh water is something i am extremely skeptical about because of the seemingly obvious impact this would have on marine life immediately surrounding the coastline. a survey brought out by the zoological survey of india estimated that the average distance from the high tide line that marine life breeds and thrives is approximately 8km out. So for cities like Bombay Madras and Calcutta it is a very feasible and sensible to do this since no marine life gets affected by the sudden unnatural increase in salt content in the sea; but here and places similar to the Andamans in which the ZSI found Marine life to thrive and breed "just off the shore" this would have a drastic impact on such a fragile ecosystem. It might eventually result in...Mumbai