Water water Everywhere!!!!!

Whenever we talk of water, few lines echo in my head...from the poem The Ancient Mariner....

Water water water....everywhere

No drop to drink...

No!!! Unlike your expectations, I will not talk about how we have floods and water is not channelized properly....It is an important piece of discussion and a lot of brainy people indulge into it....through articles and news channel discussion based shows....Only i we had better implementation of what they say....

This article says how pure water will be sold for 10 paisa per litre!!!!

It says that, Govt plans RO plants for urban areas, seven towns to be covered in first phase

Supply of potable drinking water — a 20-litre can of water purified through reverse osmosis (RO) process at Rs 2 — will soon be reality in urban areas of the state. The government plans to introduces the facility in the seven big towns in the state that have a problem of high salinity in underground water. The project has already been implemented in nearly 400 villages across the state.

Areas in Bathinda, the home turf of the Badals represented in the Lok Sabha by Sukhbir’s wife Harsimrat Kaur, will be covered in the first phase of the project, besides Sangrur, Mansa, Muktsar, Faridkot and Ferozepur. The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has been asked to allocate power connections for RO plants on priority, sources in the government said.

According to the decision taken at a recent meeting chaired by Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal, the project will be awarded through competitive bidding.

Safe drinking water is rarity in some parts of the state, especially the Malwa belt. As per official figures, there are over 3,000 villages in the state still to have safe drinking water. In large rural pockets, people believe that unsafe drinking water has caused many water-borne diseases, besides cancer.

Naandi Foundation, a Hyderabad-based NGO, is among some of the service providers in the state offering potable drinking water to consumers. In parts of Gidderbaha town in Muktsar district, where the project first started, residents had little choice but to drink groundwater containing inorganic salts.