Wat(er) crisis?

India is blessed with so many perennial rivers but we have lands where we don’t have enough water and lands which are flooded with water in the rainy season. What is wrong? Unfortunately all the North Rivers happen to be perennial and the south ones are not. What can be done to change our fate/destiny?

Way back there was a river integration project conceived. What happened to it? One friend of mine put it this way, "Our people will let the water in the sea, than to see other folks in need use it”. Is it true? I hear that they benched the project as it would cost too much but now it cost so many times more. Are we going to leave it that way or are we going to help ourselves by integrating the rivers?

Ask me and I would say we need to go forward with the project. There is too much at stake and we need to come together and look at the “water crisis” as a national issue and not look at it as a state issue.