Bore Hell !

Here I am , All bleary eyed , unbrushed teeth , staring at a monitor at 7AM on a Sunday morning after my third set of screwing tests . I'm in a vexed mood . Very . There are loud jarring noises  which woke me up . Nobody gets angry for a little noise on a Sunday morning . Besides its 7 AM anyone has the right to start working their f%*(ing heavy equipment .

Yes it is , as it has become inevitable these days to start a construction without it , a bore well is being dug . Another bloody bore well . I'm at best , an optimist . Now definitely not . 

Every plot as a bore well these days . And the plots have been fractured , divided and disintegrated as they have been passed on from generation to generation . On my street , I think every 10 meters you walk in any direction will take you past another one of these holes in the ground . Bad . 

Not so long ago there was a " hue and cry " raised about about Yediyur lake . The government in all its Brilliance , Yes in a rare show of environmental friendliness , rejuvenated the Lake . Not just this one , most of the really polluted ones in and around Bangalore . Soon after the so called clean-up process every body waited for it to fill up again . It rained . They waited . It rained some more . The government waited . It poured . We all  waited . Finally during the monsoon 1-1/2 years after the beautification process , did Yediyur get filled with water again . I believe the water table and the Yediyur lake are reticulated with more than just the water . 

I make the prophecy that Yediyur will be dry someday . Doesn't sound impossible . All the water sucked out of it by all the holes in mother earth's bosom . 

All is not so bad you say , we have catchment areas . Where ? Lal Bagh and KR park . Is it enough to keep all the surrounding bore wells watered ? The parks are indeed swamped all around by this humongous city with its holes . 

I heard BWSSB going for Cauvery satge IV . We have already squandered the Cauvery . 

Aah a hot cup of coffee . And the din . Bore wells here sometimes go dry in the summer , think its a harbinger of harm . In our 8Th standard text book I remember studying about a city in Mexico . Parts of the city just imploded into the ground , because of ground water was depleted to such an extent , that the earth couldn't support the weight of the city ! God forbid Bangalore from having a similar fate .

All the narrow minded people reading this have already formed strong opinions in thy minds . If i put one more Bore well whats wrong ? Whats your problem ? Don't you have one ? 

I think the Government should step in when the time is calling with some regulation , as cliched as it might sound . For all the whole community , including my bore well too . We have to stop this mindless drilling , or mother will stop it for us . 

' Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need , not every man's greed ' - Mahatma Gandhi .