All of India is staring at a water crisis. Water Resource Ministers in every State should ensure that they get the required expertise to store and use the rainwater that is expected during the monsoon. Blaming rain deficiency is not what they should be doing. Instead they should, on a war footing, be ensuring that lake beds are cleared, silt removed from dams and rivers and every building, however big or small, has a working rainwater harvesting system.
G. Padmanabhan,
Bengaluru