And with the invention of Wheel, the wheel of development started rotating. Now that we came way ahead of the Old Stone Age, its time to look back and see what actually we, the humankind had lost, in the course of development.
I was talking to one of the old man belonging to the developing rural face of India. He was not particularly euphoric with the developments going on in his village. Concrete roads were being built in his village and he was not happy. I was surprised to hear that the old people of his village don’t want concrete roads within the village. They want same boggy roads there. I asked the reason why he particularly is not happy with the concrete roads. Doesn’t he know that to let the “Wheels of Development” rolling, his village does need good roads?
He said, “There was time when our well had always been filled with water. And why only his well, all the wells in his village had always been filled with water. The reason was wellspring. In his village, well is the main source of water”.
Now that government is making roads, spreading a web of sewage lines in his village, the water level in their well has started going down. Even a lot of well had dried. Reason being, due to concrete roads and sewage system, all the rain water flow of the village and goes to the nearby river. This has lead to the deepening of water table and in turn had lead to the dryness of wellspring.
And till the time I was literally laughing on this old man because of his orthodox thought of being against the development. Now actually I had started feeling embracement from within. How true. Development sometimes enhances the superficial face only, by hurting the inner soul.
Did our government had visualized this potential problem of deepening of water table in villages due to the massive urbanization and making a web of roads in the process of enhancing the connectivity. Don’t we really need not only development but “Smart Development”?
Otherwise, that day is not far ahead when like Indian Cheetah, Dodo and many likes, Water will also be heard only in stories.
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