Ground Water Pollution / Depletion

 SB what is meant by "growing virtually Uncontrolled"?  Is it uncontrolled growth of population, Development or Greed? It reminds me of Sanjay Gandhi and his family planning campaign which did fail miserably. 

Sanjay also publicly initiated a widespread family planning program to limit population growth. But this resulted in government officials and police officers forcibly performing vasectomies in order to meet quotas and in some cases, sterilizing women as well. Officially, men with two children or more had to submit to sterilization, but many unmarried young men, political opponents and ignorant, poor men were also believed to have been sterilized. This program is still remembered and criticized in India, and is blamed for creating a public aversion to family planning, which hampered Government programmers’ for decades. 

On the other hand family planning incentives did not cause any embarrassment to the government. However it did not have significant impact either, as it touched only a miniscule population of government babus. The poor think of having more children to increase their income. The rich tend to restrict their numbers. If you think of it the poor should be encouraged to restrict their numbers. We give ration cards / cooking gas to poor which is misused by people not so poor. This is a governance failure. 

There is a nature’s way of selection. The epidemic like small pox which has been wiped off from the planet was one such. Epidemics like HIV are taking its place. 

Unbridled development fueled by greed [Present day Rajas] is however sure to bring the dooms day nearer than imagined. The migration of rural poor to cities like Bangalore is inevitable by the present day politics of greed?

Hi Rajesh Telkar,

Welcome to Praja. By the way I have no problem with the Tankers. Fortunately we get Cauvery Water alternate days, in HAL III stage. My Architect has provided a ground level storage tank sufficient for a weeks need. In addition to this we have over head tanks and pump to fill them as and when required.

Gone are the days when we used to get 24 hrs Cauvery water. There was no concept of over head tanks in 1950s.

Moving water by tankers should be avoided if possible. It is expensive and difficult to organize. It should be seen as a temporary measure to allow for the development of a more sustainable solution. Tankering, however, is a common method for delivering water Immediately after an emergency has happened while more long term measures are being put in place; where the emergency is thought to be temporary and the situation will return to normal soon; and where security and political problems make it difficult to change to a more sustainable approach. In the last case, Tankering may continue for long periods – sometimes for years. [1]

As an emergency measure Tankers are useful. As such I don’t think one can think of banning them. You can work out a deal with the tanker fellow to fill your storage tanks on a daily basis at concessional rates as he is next door to you!