After days of continuous rain and classes being suspended, I took the time to catch up on sleep. Yes, that adorable and glorious sleep! The one thing that I dreaded when I was a kid is now a much coveted thing now that I'm an adult.
Going back to rain, the past weeks found the Christian community praying for rain because of the dry spell and seemingly imminent water shortage. Well, God did hear us because we did and still have rain. Funny thing is, God gave us rain but humans create floods.
Most parts of the city are flooded. Noticeably, the areas that were before flood-free are now experiencing flood. As I see parts of the cities affected by the non-stop rain, I can't help but heave a sigh of relief and at the same time sigh with resignation. Relief because we are fortunate that our place is not under water. Resignation because it seems there will never be a solution anymore to the city's drainage system.
Instilling discipline and educating each and every citizen is a must if we want a solution to this lingering flood problem. Residents near rivers or creeks should discard the bad habit of throwing garbage to the water. And I'm not singling out the ones living near rivers, even the regular guy or gal out there should cooperate.
Takes a lot of undoing if you would ask me.
2 comments:
Reminds me of our Southern part... Water scarcity always plagues us... and the earlier Govt. came up with a good scheme...
RAIN WATER HARVESTING...
The govt. gently coaxed every household to implement (if not done, the electricity and water to homes would be cut :-)))
The rain water instead of flowing wastefully into the sea, got collected and filled the water tables below surface. The ground water situation really improved with wells not drying up as earlier...
but then, water still floods roads even with a brief spell of rain... thanks to the multi-storey flats springing up. Drainages designed decades ago aren't able to cope...
Only praying that in the suburbs development, the Govt takes care of these issues.
In city, I think its prudent to carry oars in cars... just in case :-)
For what it's worth : Don't fret ... you just have to listen to CNN to know that even first-world countries like the U.S., France, Holland are having the same (rain)water problems (shortage and otherwise)- maybe not as regularly (every year?) as you have there, but it happens - and with just as disastrous consequences. And it is all Man's handiwork... not any god's!
Post a Comment