We, living in urban cities are lucky to get water which at most times is sufficient to fufill our daily water requirements. However, how many of us really thank God for this. I say so, because there are still so many people in our country including small kids who are dying just because they do not have access to clean drinking water. We, humans can still survive without food for a certain number of days, however if you are left with no water for 2-3hours in the hot weather conditions which exist today you would find it difficult to survive.
Let us look at various areas where water is used by people in urban centres:
1. Drinking
2. Bathing
3. Brushing
4. Shaving (for men)
5. Washing clothes
6. Cleaning floors
7. Cleaning Cars/vehicles
8. Cleaning Utensils
9. Flushing
10. Watering of plants
I am sure there must be other uses of water as well, please help me out in compiling an even comprehensive list. The point that I want to make is we are lucky to get and thereby use water for so many things which we feel are essential for our daily survival. Whereas on the other hand, there are people who do not even get enough water to satisfy their requirement of point no. 1 in the list above. Now, few of you might say, “Kya Farak Padta Hai” and some of you my dear friends may say, so what can we do sitting at our home.
Well, the least anyone can do is to save and recycle water. Use only that much water you feel will be sufficient for your bathing/shaving/cleaning purposes. Trust me, you do not need a bucketfull of water to clean your car, howsoever big it may be. All you need is one bottle of water (1 litre or even less). Next time you go out to clean your car, carry only one bottle of water and you would see it for yourself how almost magically your car will appear like new with that much water only. There are just some of the pointers which I am suggesting. I am sure most of you would be smart enough to know how you can save water at home/school/office.
Only thing we need is to get away from our conventional mindset which often tells us ” What would happen only through my actions”. We need to understand that there are millions of people out there who are also thinking the same and therefore so is the condition of our water bodies and we are facing acute water shortage. However, if all these millions of people start thinking “I can also make a change and my own individual actions do matter”, it would not take us even a week to solve the problem of water crisis.
World Water Day stands for nothing else but only calls out to everyone to change their mindset and Make their own Choices. The choices which can ensure that no one in any part of the world at any time dies because he/she could not get clean and healthy water to drink. AMEN!
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