The Hindu 23.03.2010
Need to preserve water resources stressed
Staff Reporter
| Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage Board officials take out awareness rally |
For blue resource:Officials of the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board taking out an awareness rally on the occasion of World Water Day in Karur on Monday.
KARUR: The need to conserve water and water resources for ensuring a safe future for the next generations was highlighted in an awareness rally taken out by the Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage Board officials here on Monday.
The occasion was the World Water Day.
Participants at the awareness rally carried placards and banners that stressed water conservation, ensuring safe drinking water, frugal use of precious water, etc besides which they distributed pamphlets to the public highlighting those aspects.
The rally commenced near the bus stand and passed through the Kovai Road to reach the Coimbatore-Madurai-Salem bye pass road. TWAD Board Executive Engineer Rajendran led the rally.
Future generations
The pamphlets also pointed out that the available water resources were bare enough to meet the burgeoning human and cattle population the world over and unless efforts were taken to conserve water the future generations would not forgive the present lot.
Pollution
The officials also stressed the need to ensure that water sources remained aloof of industrial pollution and called upon the industrialists and entrepreneurs to ensure that their endeavours never caused pollution of water sources.
The sustained assault on water sources have made it difficult for the agency to supply enough potable water to the residents, the officials pointed out.
People should take a pledge to use water frugally and not to pollute or waste available water resources. Scientific studies have pointed out that acute water scarcity could plague the nation by 2025 and it was in the hands of the public to avert any crisis, the officials said.
