Where is water?

The people of Tamil Nadu and its political leaders including farmers have to work hard, store rain water and ensure recharge of ground water without depending  on  Cauvery water always from Karnataka. Former Chief Minister K.Kamaraj, though unlettered, had the vision and vigour in building dams for irrigation and drinking water. No such attempts were seen in the last five decades.

It is high time the people gird up loins themselves and store every inch of rain water, raise such less duration crops - mostly vegetables and fruits wherever possible, as keenly advocated by Rajendra Kumar, the Water Man of India in a speech at Chennai  on May 27, 2017 - "Stop rain water and build your own reserve bank of water with it"

The same stress was laid in detail and emphasised in my thesis "Economics of Small and Marginal Farmers in Madhya Pradesh" (1992) and in the book on "Small Farmers in Central India" (1995).

Let the state government, political leaders and the farmers do the needful collectively and sincerely from the current monsoon days at least on a war footing.

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