The editorial, “The heat is on” (April 5), discusses the concern over impending water shortage across the nation.
Water shortage and the distress it causes is nothing new. The same story is replayed every summer. While it is imperative that the government moves its machinery in this regard, what are we as individuals and collectively as communities doing to ensure there is not an encore year after year?
We get four months of rainfall, which is utilised for eight months ahead till the next instalment arrives around June next year. What is worrying is adequate arrangements are not being made for optimum