Save Water

Today some of our schools students were going to IIC to see a presentation of water by Anupama Mishra. He told us how people save water in places like Jaisalmer. He showed us some photos of a water harvesting system; There was a big square in the middle of a desert and right in the middle of the square was a dome kind of thing, the floor was a bit tilted to the middle so that when it rains the water which comes into the big square will go into the dome in the middle so that the villagers can take water from there to drink because just before every monsoon they clean the floor of the square so that the water that gets collected will be pure. He even told us about some step wells of Rajasthan. He showed us a photo of Jaisalmer from above the city and we could see that every house had a water harvesting system. He told us how much water the people of Delhi and Mumbai waste, for example they wash their cars with pipes that splash a lot of water. He told us that government had provided Jaisalmer water but they would not drink it and instead use it for bathing and washing clothes and they used their own harvested water to drink.