tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936223.post2668475496463440748..comments2023-09-10T01:11:02.710-07:00Comments on Random ramblings: Water conservation and tradition - a meandering reflectionnIlagrIvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04778523144960984421noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936223.post-13020476140762641962009-07-09T23:13:05.645-07:002009-07-09T23:13:05.645-07:00Thanks to kAlaharaNasuratrANa for mentioning about...Thanks to kAlaharaNasuratrANa for mentioning about changing the course of west flowing Netravati to make it reverse its flow to the east.<br /><br />An excellent study on what happens to rivers when they are subjected to such stupid interventions is beautifully narrated in Empires of The Indus by Alice Albinia who actually travelled from its delta to its source in Tibet.<br /><br />It is a book all about the Sindhu river and its history, politics, and civilizations.<br /><br />Can I send across this gem of a book to you?Aramnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936223.post-62050061515825464252009-07-09T23:04:28.479-07:002009-07-09T23:04:28.479-07:00The old way of rural living conserved a lot of wat...The old way of rural living conserved a lot of water. Use of banana leaves, muttugada yele instead of steel thaalis which require washing with water, toilet in bayalu kadege, kereyalli snana, washing clothes, etc. <br /><br />The rapid urbanization and aping the western style of living has obviously resulted in huge requirement of water.<br /><br />The following article by Rohini Nilekani in livemint is very interesting.<br /><br />(It is supposedly the 100th anniversary of the modern lavatory)<br /><br />http://www.livemint.com/articles/2009/06/04205920/Greening-the-toilet.htmlAramnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936223.post-46576933599784451932009-06-27T10:32:01.416-07:002009-06-27T10:32:01.416-07:00I Completely agree with you. I feel that people li...I Completely agree with you. I feel that people like to live in an imaginative world and hesitate to face realities. <br />Our ancestors had the wisdom to harvest rain water through keres and kaTTes. For instance, the region between kAverI and tungabhadrA has no major river but had water sources like turuvekere tarikere, arsikere, tAvarekere(there many of by the same name), etc. Rather than reviving these, our people (esp. our representatives) want project like upper tungA, upper bhadRA, eastern nEthrAvati, southern gangA. <br /><br />Whenever we open a tap in BengaLUru, we should feel that kAvEri is being converted to vrushaBhAvati (look what we have done to this river in the past 100 years).kAlaharaNasuratrANahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594555113793283307noreply@blogger.com