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The water table of Bangalore a few decades ago was quite sufficient for
the then population of Bangalore, but now the ten-fold increase of population,
and the multistoried skyline, water is fast becoming a scarce commodity.
You are sure to see water-tankers more often than oil-tankers. Buildings
coming up indiscriminately has caused the water table to go down even further,
and borewells are needed to be dug deeper to get a hopefully steady stream.
I have had to see my
two large chookoo
trees die because the roots could not get to water because the neighbours
both had dug deep into the soil to make basements for their flats, leaving
me floating at ground Zero!! Ulsoor lake is important as it provides the
Cantonment underground streams a wee bit of hope, but after the desilting
(last was done in 1904), and not enough rains, the lake is still a marshy
dry bed. One more large water resource is the Agram Lake that has been drained
and desilted, and in the bargain, some of the land has been filled in making
the lake even smaller, and the same problem, not enough rain to fill the
lake again. Richmond town had a tank called 'Mud Tank'(Akithimmanhully Tank) drained out to make
the Hockey Stadium (when we were children, we went fishing in this tank),
and Ashoknagar (Shoolay) had its own tank drained to make the Football Stadium.
The Millers Tank was drained to make way for reclaimed land for commercial
buildings opposite the Cantonment Station. The Bangalore Bus Station was
a tank land filled. JC Road had one I think.
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Thought for the Day: " Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, For you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you shall laugh. Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man's sake. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, Fon in the manner their fathers did to the prophets. But woe to you who are rich, For you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full, For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, For you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did they fathers to the false prophets." Holy Bible: Luke 6:20-26