Air and Water, the two basic necessity to sustain life are actually given free by God. Absolutely free with no taxes or maintenance to be paid. Anything if needs to be done is to take care of it. With modernization came along a baggage of issues. Air pollution, water pollution, deforestation.
Lets talk about Water pollution. Can be divided into two major categories. One is to where chemicals from factories, deadly by products are dumped into lakes and rivers, thus making it poisonous. Killing the under-water world habitat and also impacting the life that depends on it. Second is drying up the water resources like lakes.
Lakes, that usually acts as natural rain-water harvesting mechanism are very important part of our lives. They not only help in keeping the water table high, thus avoid bore-wells drying up. They can very well be developed as recreational area.
Below are images from Google earth of Gottigere Lake. Pictures taken in Year 2000, 2008, 2011, 2012. One can see the shrinking of the lake.
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| Year 2000 |
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| Year 2008 |
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| Year 2010 |
The picture taken in the year 2000. Just have a look at the size of the lake. I have seen this lake overflowing over the road in the monsoon.
Well, its no more the case. Infact there is no water left in the lake at all.
I will leave you here. Will be back with more on this topic soon.
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| Year 2011 |
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