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The Contradiction Really Struck Me
2008-05-21 11:44:12
On the way back to my house, I drove by a sight that I have seen before, but the contradiction of it had never hit me. It was kids and women waiting for water in the noon day sun in a slum. There were about 30 of them just waiting there for water, just sweating away. It struck me that there is something wrong here. That was when I started to investigate it. I read a statement by a politician whose great rallying cry was for the votes of the farmers. We didn’t take him too seriously because at that time we were quite feudal in India—I guess we still are. So there he was, rallying the farmers, and he said something that struck me. He told the farmers that the people in the city consume more water in one flush than their family gets the whole day—or perhaps more than in two or three days. That really struck me. »
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In this blog, I display my own photos and discuss issues involving water that have inspired Paani ("Water"), a film I am developing to examine the daily struggle for water in the slums of Mumbai.
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But isnt the problem much bigger than what it actually appears to be...The fact that it still goes unnoticed is because people have started living with the shortcomings of the administrative bodies...Waitin for the water for hours has become a part of their lives...People in the cities are privileged to have water running through their taps all day long but then awareness has to be created..Such changes cannot be made overnight but atleast through planned and sincer efforts some difference could be done..