For the FIRST time in the history of Mumbai there will be total 100% cut of water supply for 24 Hrs. on 27-28 Dec,2006 for a major pipe line connection. It is feared that the same thing will be repeated in Jan 2007.
This news has put All Mumbaikars in dizzy. There had been frantic search for storage drums/tank for storing the water to meet this occasion. Many people have expressed their views on how they will meet this cut . Some will be skipping their bath while others will just carry on with the deodorant spray etc. What a commotion for this one day cut? At least one good thing BMC has done is to implement this cut in winter time. Had it been in the summer time, the position would have been more acute.
This one day water cut has made the Mumbaikar jittery.To most of the people in different areas this is not a new thing. They do not see the face of water for days together. How they must be coping up ? Many villages and the interior parts also go without water for many days. What they must be feeling? Can anybody guess?
As the proverb goes- "One man's poison is other man's bread". The same is true with the Water Tankerwallas. Today will be a boom day for them. they will be in great demand and most probably they will be the happiest of the lot..
Surely,that is life after all !Labels: Disaster, Education, labour, Water crisis |
The water situation in Mumbai is not bad at all compared to Delhi in the summer !