September 16, 2015 at 10:27am •
Nagesh says that people should make a film in our village to show how things should not happen. Just as there are inspirational films from other villages on how to save and protect groundwater.
In 30 years we finished our groundwater from 50 feet to 1000 feet. People grew sugarcane where rainfed millets were the norm, once they got borewells and electricity.
But where he will question the village people, i will not. When the whole world has succumbed to modernity and consumerism - could one village have held out, and stayed non-monetised and non-aspiring and happy with a hard life and minimum clothes. When the rest of us lead a different and beguileing life.
We are accountable to each village that has exhausted its survival base.
Andhuvan Dhanesh
Printing papers is easier than growing a sapling. That's why they print them in huge, circulate it and use all the resources in the nature and buy all the calories from villages with the papers. How much ever large we produce from the village we get only a little of these papers.
Andhuvan Dhanesh
These paper boys from cities contribute nothing in return for the calories the villagers donate them. Instead they loot all the wealth the villagers posses and turn their children just another set of paper boys!
R Pandiyan
Ground water would normally gets recharged with every rain as water flows in rivers and fill in the lakes. So the level may not go down due only to excessive extraction of water by farmers. The reason why farmers have to go deeper in the ground year after year could be largely due to mining activities which has gained enormous momentum of late, be it sand mining from rivers or mining for coal, granite gypsum and other minerals.
Aparna Krishnan
They mine water ! To grow sugarcane. Because they need money as everything gets monetized.
R Pandiyan
What I meant is the blame for 50 to 1000 meters cannot be attributed to water mining alone but to other mining activities as well. Farmers are also part our society and so they are also prone to consumerism as everyone else is. I agree on that.
Prakash Thangavel
No mining here, yet no water at 1000 ft. How long will aquifer last when rains are failing?
R Pandiyan
If there is no rain fall, nothing can help. But ground water level may depend on the absorption and retention capacity of the soil and the direction of the undercurrent in an area. If the undercurrent is towards areas of mining activity, the ground w… See More
Aparna Krishnan
No mining at all hereabouts
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Prakash Thangavel
Our well is meters away from cauvery. River is dead and our well just about holding up. Our salvation is in coorg and wayanad, not in TN.
Prakash Thangavel
And drought has hit both wayanad and coorg because of deforestation for coffee, tea, cardomom estates, resorts, roadways, stupidity called eco tourism, huge dams and what not
Chidambaran Subramanian
You have to blame the collective village for what happened
Aparna Krishnan
I blame the larger consuming world for the ethos they dat, and also for monetising the world whereby all have to follow suit.
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