Letter to BS: Managing water access faces a different set of problems

Our mind set is still one of taking water for granted and assuming that it will always be there, the ubiquitous tap will for ever keep flowing and this is wrong

Vinayak Chatterjee in “Water: The next frontier” (August 6) covers almost all aspects of this crucial, all-important issue except — surprisingly — conservation of this life sustaining resource and stopping it’s criminal waste by all of us. Just as in the case of energy, saving a drop of water is the same as generating a drop of the nectar.

Of course, we must (i) embark on massive programmatic investments at a national level (ii) make more states take lead in water management and move up the index (iii) adopt optimal solutions in each state as against the policy of one-size-fits-all (iv)