A couple of months ago, we
were raising alarm calls warning ourselves about the impending water deficit. An obsession for water conservation spread
like an epidemic and was picked up by almost everyone. The media houses vied
for brownie points, politicians would have said and done something to either
conserve or improve their electoral bases, conservationists would have been
glad to read their own words in prime print spaces and academicians would have
lectured and quizzed thirsty students.
This obsession got washed
out in rains. A benevolent nature bestowed more than sufficient rains to fill
our 'silt filled' reservoirs. The media houses, politicians, conservationists
and academicians, all seem to have picked up some other themes and will come
back to blow the bugles next summer.
Annual knee jerk reactions
will not help achieve the ends. Viewed like summer internships, part time
efforts towards conservation, will deliver little.
Does anyone care?
