Grade six science classes teach us that water has various nutrients in itself although it is colourless and tasteless. India in particular may not be the best country that serves filtered and clean water in most places including restaurants, hospitals and schools or even in ones house! Out of sheer personal experience I can easily list down a couple of places that I have visited and have had ‘funny’ or ‘different’ tasting water. I remember telling a relative who had a well in their compound that they had the sweetest well water; they took all the credit instantly. On another occasion I remember a restaurant in particular which had served slightly different tasting water. If water is supposed to be tasteless how can this be possible?
Mangalore has emerged from a tiny town to a place that most people have perhaps heard about. The rise & growth of industries, power plants and chemical factories have increased tremendously in the past few decades. With more number of people choosing to settle in Mangalore, the traffic disease has surely hit Hampankatta road, every fortnight you get to see developments happening in and around your locality. Buildings are coming up at the speed of how mosquitoes are breeding in a nearby pond! With these multiple developments happening around us, we sometimes fail to see the dark side.
Do we really know what happens to all the waste coming from the various small and big industries around Baikampady Industial Estate and other Industrial areas? Where do hospitals dispose their waste? What about the sewage system of your own house leave alone multi storey buildings? There is a high possibility that all the above mixes into our groundwater sources, thus resulting in the funny or different tasting water you come across more often than not. Sewage treatment plants are as important as having access to filtered water in your homes. Most of the drains here in Mangalore lead to the rivers or seas, the result being Pollution and contamination of fresh water. The recent issue on effluent discharge leading into the Surathkal Beach is probably a good example and throws more light to my above statements.
The ‘go green’ concepts are not just for planting saplings or not using plastics, it also refers to take precautionary measures so that we save and conserve our resources, use them wisely and not pollute the environment.
Article Written By:- Miss Steffi
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